Been thinking that dealing with being a member of the overproduced elite once you recognize that that’s what you are, is the central middle-class challenge today. Naive blue collar larping is just a cope, but working with atoms in a pre-textual way is a part of the answer.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1312951896064155648 …
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Sinners otoh, skip straight from “I’m not paying for that” to “who can I stick with the bill.” At some level they accept that the bill must be paid by *someone*. Engineering I think begins with the thought, “can I make hack it so nobody has to pay the full price?”
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An interesting things about space colonization is that repairing the Earth's biosphere has a real "terraforming Mars on easy mode" vibe to it. There's the requirement for a deeper understanding of biology/ecology, but also figuring out how to run REALLY long-term projects.
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All of the interesting problems anymore are long/deep problems.
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