Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n...
by hobomatic on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:43PM
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If the prospect of impending austerity or violence leads to more suffering than the experience of these things themself then I would not say that being at war or hungry is the worse situation. While maybe subjective and personal by some criteria, still real and measurable.
Your parents probably lives through a transition from extreme scarcity to abundance. As scarce as things were for them in the 80s, they were probably at lot more scarce in the 50s and 40s. Maybe your parents didn’t experience that directly but their parents did for sure.
From our grandparents generation and before, a much higher proportion of them were directly affected by things like war.
If you’re lacking hope because you’re afraid of something like war, I would consider that a luxury compared to actually being in a war.