Re:The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale tha...
by eru on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:01PM
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> The world is getting better (for many) but it's also getting weirder and crazier. Both can be true.
Yes, that is true. I was taking your use of 'shitty timeline' to mean 'worse'.
I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about post-scarcity as a monolith.
To give an example: Lamborghinis are still very much scarce; but drinking water out of the tap is so cheap in developed countries that we are living in a post-scarcity society for that resource. (I specify 'drinking water', because for industrial or agricultural applications water is still very much a constrained resource.)
Another example is Internet bandwidth for text-only browsing of eg Wikipedia: it's too cheap to matter. Internet bandwidth for watching Netflix isn't quite there yet.
Yes, that is true. I was taking your use of 'shitty timeline' to mean 'worse'.
I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about post-scarcity as a monolith.
To give an example: Lamborghinis are still very much scarce; but drinking water out of the tap is so cheap in developed countries that we are living in a post-scarcity society for that resource. (I specify 'drinking water', because for industrial or agricultural applications water is still very much a constrained resource.)
Another example is Internet bandwidth for text-only browsing of eg Wikipedia: it's too cheap to matter. Internet bandwidth for watching Netflix isn't quite there yet.