[vkou]

Nah. The first two thirds of the 20th century was the science and information world. Man gained mastery of the skies, the depths of the sea, the void of space, the atom. We were taming diseases and found a way to end hunger. We started building thinking machines. We were playing with the fire of the gods. Science was working miracles on the daily.

It still is, but nobody gives a shit anymore, we are in the financialization and rent-seeker world now.

Now we are just playing with fire.

[andrekandre]

  > we are in the financialization and rent-seeker world now

sometimes i wonder if this is what happens when organic growth stops/slows; when (for lack of a better word) desperate people just start looking for any alternative to keep the growth train running...

[vkou]

It's just what happens when you give the rich all the political power in your society.

All of them come from the 'make money from other people's labour' background, and they will, of course, use that political power to optimize that wealth extraction.