In 1960 you had a strong basis to believe we were heading for routine space travel, the eradication of disease, and either world government or nuclear war. How none of these came to pass and we got Pepe memes instead is a testament to the power of the future to remain surprising
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Replying to @Pinboard
None of those came to pass because of capitalism my dude
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Replying to @vexwerewolf
You have a vaccine in your username that was developed by capitalism
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Replying to @Pinboard
Nah, it was developed by researchers with billions in public funding, my dude.
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Replying to @vexwerewolf
Publicly funded by taxes from a robust capitalist economy! It's capitalism all the way down, I'm afraid
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Replying to @Pinboard
"robust capitalist economy" My dude, real wages have stagnated for my entire lifetime and most people in my generation will never be able to own a house
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Replying to @vexwerewolf
An entire economic and ideological alternative to capitalism died in my lifetime because it wasn't able to provide for people's most basic needs. So I'm always going to be a fan of capitalism, where shoes fit and the toilet paper at least doesn't hurt to use
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Replying to @Pinboard @vexwerewolf
This in a thread about failure of imagination about the future. I certainly didn’t see *this* coming
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Replying to @sbesselsen @Pinboard
Why? Stanning for capitalism definitely requires a failure of imagination.
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I'm a lightly regulated small business account making fat profits. What do you expect from me?
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