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by daenz 1970 days ago
They were severely exacerbated by tech. Let's argue about it and prove my point.
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Agree. I think social technology has been an unmitigated disaster. I appreciate the engineering technology that has improved our infrastructure and environment. Air is cleaner, pollution is lower, food is plentiful. Cars and almost all other machinery are more efficient and more reliable. Medicine is better; things that used to be death sentences are either managable or more treatable. But compared to the 1980s, I'd take the social environment then vs now without blinking.
It is a failure of leadership, the humanities, not STEM.

Biology can only do so much if we ignore it.

No, it's just the same thing happening over and over again.

Rich screw poor. Poor want to strike back.

In theory everyone could be happy. It's just that there is a lack of willingness for it to happen.