[deathhand]

"The future is here but not evenly distributed"

Society has scalability problem. It might be the inability for the human mind to care about every little detail of life that makes it function or with increased scale comes with greater perverse actors and the system needs needs counterweight to it.

America has been divided packaged and sold with little care about the ramifications down the road. We started off well, we broke up monopolies,(standard oil) protected people woth(glass-steagall) but then we lost our way and trillions can now be lost by the pentagon with little then a blink. Local construction costs skyrocket compared to other parts of the world, and we've created a horrible system of guaranteed profit in both colleges and homes allowing the prices to be inflated.

[lisper]

> We started off well

I'm not sure that's true. We started off with slavery.

Then we had a civil war.

Then we had Jim Crow.

Then we had disco. ;-)

America has always had problems. We just have a tendency to forget about them and focus on the positive aspects of the past. (I think reasonable people can disagree on the merits of this approach.)

[deathhand]

Fair point but as it relates to technology.. we can't progress if things hold us back. Wealth inequality being the greatest thing doing so.