[lp4vn]

There is something very wrong with the current dynamic of the world. Work is deeply devalued while capital has been reaping all the benefits of the increased productivity: if you doubt me, ask anyone who has made any kind of investment if they are making more money from the investment or from their regular job.

This is creating a ridiculous wealth disparity and deincentivizing a whole generation to get good with a skillset. I already heard from a lot of young people that working is not worth it, hard to disagree with them when even a basic thing like a piece of land or a house looks out of reach for a regular person.

But as you put it unsustainable things are not sustainable, society will regress until the equilibrium is found again. But things didn't need to be like this.

[rglover]

You're right, they didn't.

> “We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”

> - Wendell Berry

[happyjack]

This is so spot on. We (assuming you live in the US) live in a country where the purpose is to work for as little as possible, "grind," then throw money into an index fund and have it support us the rest of our lives. Own property, while having the bottom 50% of society continually support us in the gig and service economy.

Look, I'm no Bernie Sanders, but you have to be honest about the morality of it, and the feasibility of it. I don't see the current system lasting.

[xetplan]

As opposed to when in the past?

This linen of thought is just so lacking gratitude for the time and place you were actually born.

You basically won the lottery in the grand scheme of things but still complain.

Would it have been better to be born in 1950? Certainly not if you happen to be born in China.

How about in 1910 so you hit your 20s right as the depression hits. Or 1920 so you grow up in the depression then go fight in WW2.

How about Cambodia in 1970?

Yea life would be better if I was 6'4, strikingly handsome with a dead rich uncle that left me all his money too.

[lp4vn]

Your commentary is pretty childish.

I pointed out a structural issue of the modern world and you came up with a pointless counterpoint about being born in an unfavourable condition in the past.

I guess I'm being trolled.

[agumonkey]

technological progress to that extent is touching ethical issues.. what are we supposed to do if our existence don't depend on us learning / collaborating ?