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I don't expect any fairness or warmth from those people, and I still find many of the same ones pretty thoughtless and boring.

All the same, I try to sprinkle a little more warmth and kindness on what I do now than they did then, or likely would now were our positions of influence reversed.

Not because it's fair, not because they really deserve it, not even abstract reasons like their kids shouldnt suffer for them being dicks in high school, but because I want to be in a world that errs on being nicer than it should. I want to fundamentally break the rules we grew up by, and we're genuinely on the cusp of technology enabling that.

And at the end of the day, I simply have more power than them, so we'll live a little more how I want and a little less in their Darwinian shithole.