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Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In by nickdothutton on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:04AM (#37975491)
Newsflash: Human beings are an unequal species, giving rise to unequal societies, with unequal outcomes. You can try and mitigate or ease things a little, but you wont alter that reality. Even if everyone on the planet were offered a free Harvard/Oxford/Sorbonne education (and boarding), there would be some people who couldn't get themselves out of bed each morning to attend class.
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Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In by olddustytrail on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:21AM (#37975620)
Indeed. And then they'd never be aware of the "nirvana fallacy".

The only people who argue about perfect equality are those setting up straw man arguments. I have no issues with a hard working person having 10x more than a lazy person. Or even 100x. Hey, why not 1000x even!

It's when it becomes 10,000,000x the amount that a hard working person could realistically make in their lifetime that I think inequality might just have gone a bit far.

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Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In by rogers12 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @12:41PM (#37976886)
Unreasonable people can disagree on the exact threshold. Sometimes they decide that 10,000,000xers are out of reach, but gullible upper middle class schlubs like you and I are quite ripe for the looting.
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Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In by TotalCrackpot on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:20AM (#37981576)
We had every equal societies in the world in a lot of places, they didn't have many hierarchies like a lot of tribes in America before they got slaughtered by white invaders. Ignoring a lot of anthropology with your ignorant comment.
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Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In by nickdothutton on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:43PM (#38006719)
There are inequalities within a tiny village, within a family, and even within a relationship. One is smarter or more healthy or stronger or more cooperative or better looking or feels the cold or has better eyesight… We are a totally unequal species.
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