Temptation Man materializes in front of you and makes you an offer: "Mankind will live 100,000 years of 1990s-like experience. By the power of wish granting tech, population, and resources will not change from 1995 levels. No guarantees later." Do you take Temptation Man's offer?
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“1990s-like experience” is a red flag. Get ready for 100,000 years of the Sierra Leone Civil War
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It wasn't! The question at the root is: what's better, certain long comfortable stagnation*, or a chance of Kardashev III? *not neccesarily for everyone ...
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Maybe your intuition was right and it is better to separate "stagnation" and "inequality" aspects of this!
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Not for black people in the US either. The 90s were ass in that regard.
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