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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by api on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:57PM (#32975385)
… says someone who if they are posting on HN has very likely never known actual hunger or true poverty and has all humanity’s history and knowledge at their fingertips instantly.

The problem with progress is that it makes people so comfortable and privileged that they dream up inane fantasy ideologies that question progress and harken back to the imaginary golden ages from which their ancestors painfully crawled.

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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by cratermoon on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:01AM (#32983224)
No one is fetishizing the past. It's simply a fact that progress is not a inevitable, not a law of nature. We live in a time when one generation is objectively less well off than their parents. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/14/economics-v...
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