It’s like developed world countries make you click a huge TOS “I agree” button on a bigger social contract the instant you’re born. Lots of comfort and convenience lie beyond the button, but you sign away more relative agency. Like take life/death power credit scores have in US.
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This overall convergent pattern of evolution in developed and developing world points to a particular kind of human condition. Elites cheaply controlling masses of human NPCs, robots, and AIs, offering much less material plenty than before (airline amenities anyone?) in return.
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This is important: BOTH developed and developing worlds are converging to a new asymptote. It’s a mistake to think that either 1st world is going 3rd world or 3rd world is going 1st. Both are going 2nd world (now we finally know what 2nd world actually is: software-eaten world!)
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You can either join this budget airline of a civilizational path, or make the reverse tradeoff of industrial modernity: more agency, less stuff. Climate action pressures will simply add gradually increasing stress in this direction.
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