> Almost everything (tech, cultural, etc) you have now is because of "dead hands". And a bunch of those hands belonged to total assholes who gained their footh

> Almost everything (tech, cultural, etc) you have now is because of "dead hands". And a bunch of those hands belonged to total assholes who gained their foothold in our lives and culture by fucking over vast numbers of other people and preventing alternatives (sometimes superior alternatives) from becoming what we have now instead. You really don't want all of those dead hands dictating how future generations should live and work. Some of them would happily see you dead or enslaved if it'd make them or their family a dollar richer. Some of them would see many of us dead or enslaved for much less. It's easy to look around at the end result of luck and survivorship bias and assume that what we have today was the best possible outcome and imagine how wise and benevolent the people who got us to where we are now must have been, but I think you'd be disappointed if you took a hard look at how typically human and flawed the dead creators of some of the things you now enjoy were, and by what might have been if that wasn't the case. We are the best generation to decide how we should live and work. Future generations will be the best to decide how they should live and work. Nobody else could possibly have the information needed to make the right choices for others, and people should have the freedom to decide what is best for themselves. The most we can hope for is that enough of us will make choices today that we think will result in something good for future generations based on the information we currently have. If we can manage that much at least history will be kind to us.