Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy

Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by james_s_tayler on Friday September 27, 2019 @09:41PM (#21097811)

I've noticed that assumption is heavily baked in everywhere you look. I'll bet after the hundreds of thousands of years we have made it so far, humanity, in one form or another, will continue to persist.

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Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by pmiller2 on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:05PM (#21097906)

I didn’t say “humanity.” I said “human civilization.” I do think there’s hope for humanity, but I’m a lot more bearish about civilization.

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Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by nine_k on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:32AM (#21098455)

If human civilization collapses and humans go back to hunter-gatherer subsistence, it means death to about 95-97% of humans.

Not precisely an extinction, but still not a lot of hope.

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