do people have any idea how quickly technology progressed from 1900 - 1950? compare from 1970 - 2020. it's a big freaking difference!
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I mean we've gone back in the domains of: Rocketry Housing Building Equality Rate of progress in physics Rate of progress in biology Rate of progress in life expectancy The middle class Supersonic passenger flight Public intellectuals Literacy (imho)
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Ever since WWII ended, the class of accountant moralist bureaucrat politician financier control freaks took over everything & financialised & regulated the economy, placing basic stability out of reach of innovative people & small businesses unless they participate in bubbles
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there's a slim chance with great effort we can get an evolution without a revolution without, you know, world war 3 scales of death and upheaval, & there's another possibility that those "in control of society" maintain it and we end up in a choked off stagnation, seems unlikely
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