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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by tim333 on Friday May 27, 2016 @10:16AM (#11786177)
re Historically, competition is what drives humanity forward

I'd say it was more technology that did it. Chimps both compete and cooperate and don't advance much. It was the invention of writing, printing, electricity and the like that changed things.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:39PM (#11787591)
I started to believe we're severely underestimating how much progress of technology drives the society. There are convincing arguments that all the things we call social progress - enlightenment, democracy, civil rights, etc. - are results of changing technology landscape. That landscape creates some "stable states" into which the society ends up falling, and those states change with the available technology.
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