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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by pharrington on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:42PM (#14091684)
The problem is that despite how good it feels, individuals simply optimizing their individual activity does not scale to the societal scope. Post-agrarian humans literally behave and think via shared infrastructure. The only way individuals can make lasting improvements to society is to improve the infrastructure.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by Rapzid on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:35PM (#14092197)
Individuals changing their behaviour can lead to societal change though.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by pharrington on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:02PM (#14092414)
Yes, but you are talking about contingencies. Optimism over dice rolls cannot excuse wasteful systems.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by Rapzid on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:35PM (#14094278)
I'm talking about how nearly all progressive progress progresses. It swells up from individuals.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:00AM (#14096769)
Does it? Or maybe those individual pop up and do their progressive thing only when existing infrastructure and technological landscape lets them do that?
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