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Re:Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night... by saas_sam on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:01PM (#24159644)
Food, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well as the rich.

The main thing people get unhappy about is wealth disparity ie., how much MORE the rich have than the poor. That even today's poor have a rectangle that's effectively a magic portal to the entire world's knowledge and population is not satisfying to you when you read headlines about Bezos' mansions, right? Allow me to humbly suggest to you that if the dominant emotion of your worldview is envy, you would not have been any happier in decades past.

Re:Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night... by rscho on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:15PM (#24162719)
Nice narrative. Yes, poors are better in a materialistic way. Now, what about their freedom? Is that also getting better? You might recall the magic rectangle from Farenheit 451...
Re:Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night... by saas_sam on Saturday August 15, 2020 @10:11AM (#24168982)
Don't strain your back moving those goal posts. ;)