[stego-tech]

If we’re going to take the long view, then we’re long past due to create a society where the excess wealth generated by labor is shared among us all such that nobody must work to survive, as opposed to the current model of allowing a handful who already have enough money to never need to work again to hoover up even more wealth for themselves.

If we’re going to take the long view, we’re about fifty years late to the transition away from fossil fuels so we protect and preserve our current climate.

If we’re going to take the long view, then we’re about a hundred years too late in the US to expanding and modernizing our mass transit such that it benefits the whole, rather than the private.

If we want to talk about the long view so damn bad, then we need more housing and less office space; we need more integrated communities and less segregated zoning; we need equitable and affordable access to healthcare and education to ensure a functioning worker base, and less gatekeeping of knowledge or health behind individual wealth.

Don’t trot out the tired trope of automation as a long view goal, and then ignore the entire past century of sacrificing the long view for short teem gains. It reveals your insincerity as well as your ignorance.