We are navigating our way into a very risky future, and all our maps are from the 17th century. The cartographers are seeing the past.
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Issues of racism are still today issues of colonialism. Issues of class are still today issues of wealth & production.
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The movements that claimed to fix these issues (liberalism, capitalism, communism, nazism, fascism to name a few) have all failed. Every one
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Yet we stubbornly cling to them, and blame each other instead of developing better, more functioning models.
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The right is blamed for the brutality of capitalism and interventionism, the left for the insipidity of liberalism and intersectionality
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Both of these sides, by the way, would tell me that ALL of the issues are actually the other side's fault.
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But the real problem is the refusal to see the world through anything but a broken, dated lens. For example:
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"But if we implement UBI, who would work? What would pay for it?"
Do you understand overhead costs? Heard of this thing called automation?
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80% of all jobs (semi-arbitrarily chosen number, see Pareto Principle) are useless filler that exists to create paychecks for people.
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Secondly, most of the people doing these jobs are depressed and incompetent, and often worse than useless when there's anything at stake.
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