The system works for trillionaires.
The system works for trillionaires.
The system may favor the extremely rich, but ordinary people also contribute to bad policies by resisting technology and assuming that older or more “natural” ways are automatically better.
i'm sure it was always this way in some sense. we get imperfect systems from imperfect people. society is kind of like a function that is emergent from its constituent parts. and there were all sorts of horrible ways people managed things thousands of years ago, i think we do have an improvement from that
in our own time and space, the challenge isn't physical danger, or even a rival tribe or country. it is the hulking magnitude of billions of people in a complex and indifferent factory assembly line. i don't care to look up the statistics at the moment, but the amount of people being drugged to cope with reality in america is somewhere between 25 and 50 percent for women. people are coming apart at the seams from the level of indifference
this is also why we are seeing a resurgence of christianity in america. people are desperately trying to lock onto meaning in (as corny as it sounds) this post-richard dawkins framework. because really when atheism hit the internet in like 2006, it flipped half of our generation. and people need meaning, honestly let them have that if you believe in it or not
and humans aren't even really as smart as they think they are. we have something like 100 billion neurons on average, and the average person is going to have some trouble doing calculus. but even on the smart end of things, let's say you are a few standard deviations up, you're still like a monkey with 100 billion neurons. we are very limited in our intelligence, and if we scaled up by a few trillion neurons, we would see our own folly. but since that is impossible, i think there is some room to say we don't really have it all figured out