[Liesmith]

It is exciting to think that everything is collapsing and the world is changing and now is different than the past. And in a lot of ways it is. But there is no technological singularity that is going to make human beings irrelevant. We need to do something about the various crises of our time, but the guy you responded to is right. My first reaction on reading the article in the OP was "Wow, isn't it funny how bad things looked only a couple of years ago!" The whining 'democracy is a lie' part made me particularly nostalgic for a kinder, simpler time, a time when I could hate George Bush with all of my hate and could say stuff like "the system is totally broken, man" with a straight face.

While you can't trust governments and powerful individuals to reliably act in your interest (and never could), we need to take a step back here. There's a lot of nonsense and science fiction dystopia going around itt, a lot of people who think that 90% of humanity is worthless now that we don't need them for physical labor. That's ridiculous. Things are basically fine and while there are going to be some serious repercussions among tech people things will remain basically fine for the vast majority of westerners.