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The last thing my father said to me before he passed was to keep people looking forward to the future. It's easy to romanticize the past and it can seem intell
by dweekly 28d ago
The last thing my father said to me before he passed was to keep people looking forward to the future.
It's easy to romanticize the past and it can seem intellectually sophisticated to despair about the future, when in fact the overwhelming evidence is that things have gotten much much better for nearly everyone on just about any objective axis you can pick.
- inigyou 28d agoExcept they haven't.
- orand 27d agoGood one. Refute an unsubstantiated claim with an unsubstantiated rebuttal. I'm sure we can all learn from that. /s
- inigyou 27d agoYou made the claim, you substantiate it.
- wseqyrku 27d agoTech has gotten better, but people yeah, downward spiral to the bottom of hell, sadly. Hard to be not a cynic these days.
- account42 25d agoThe fundamentals behind the tech might have gotten better but the implementations of it have also gotten worse in many significant ways for normal users.