It’s easier to sell people on the idea of a new technology or system that doesn’t have any historical precedent. All you have to do is list the potential upsides.
Something like a school or a workplace training programme, those are known quantities. There’s a whole bunch of historical and currently-existing projects anyone can look at to gauge the cost. Your pitch has to be somewhat realistic compared to those, or it’s gonna sound really suspect.
People said the same thing about not having kings
Pretty well. I’m not arguing China is perfect or anything, but they are at least capable of addressing a problem and moving on to the next one. Like, 50 years ago they were having trouble feeding people. Today, they’re everyone’s largest trading partner. That comes with it’s own set of issues, but I think they have the capacity to work through it.
50 years ago, the United States was arguing about abortion and inflation. When I was in elementary school, it was with talk of school shootings on the news. Today, we’re still arguing about abortion and inflation. Now I’m in the workforce and several generations have grown up with school shootings on the news. If China has issues “bubbling under the surface”, then our issues have become gangrenous.
A lot of countries went from monarchies to democracies peacefully
could you name one?
I dunno, human history is a story of conscious design and planning outperforming evolutionary systems.
China and Vietnam are doing pretty well with their mixed economies. Seems like they’ve harnessed the positive effects of evolutionary economies without giving up conscious control to a stock market that only makes decisions via short-term profits.
The rest of the democratic world isn’t working off a framework from the 1700s
As it is an unnuanced take of anti-capitalism
Or how about you make laws that limit the influence any one person can have and remove money from politics so anyone can run and you don’t have bribes called lobbying?
Do you see a path forward to this that doesn’t somehow involve doing away with the current system that allows influence and money in politics? Don’t you think the people who benefit from this arrangement will do everything in their power to keep us from reforming it?
Naturally a planned economy under-performs an evolutionary economy.
The first time. What about the planned economy that learns from the previous one’s mistakes? Or the one after that?
By that logic, anti-monarchism is also fascist. After all, they tried to create a “better society” by eating all the kings, killing the landed gentry, and destroying feudalism. Must be fascist, right?
We already know the NSA is keeping tabs on everyone
…what. They’re everyone’s largest trading partner, why would they do that?
I can’t say I disagree. The tendency to outright dismiss christianity online is understandable, but a little frustrating. Even with that horrifying core, a lot of people find solace in it. For many, it’s the only semblence of community that’s lasted into the 21st century.
On another level, it’s just plain interesting the sorts of stories people felt needed to be preserved. It speaks to how they lived and what they valued. A lot has changed, and a lot hasn’t. That kind of narrative window into the past is valuable, and I’m glad I grew up with it, even if I don’t consider myself Christian anymore.
that’s how you teach them to highlight and copy/paste text
It’s interesting that that relationship changes, isn’t it? Like, early on God is the sort of deity to turn you into salt or flood the world if He’s displeased. And over time, He does that sort of spiteful intervention less and less. It’s hard not to see it as Him getting wiser and more compassionate. But… if He’s all powerful and all knowing to begin with, why does His approach to people change?
A few years ago, didn’t the British prime minister threaten to cut Ukraine out of economic relations if Zelenskyy negotiated with Russia? Kinda seams like that’s already happened.
It was just one line of dialog, but the sequel did mention that the company is expanding from just resource extraction to selling settlements to the wealthiest who are fleeing a dying earth
gotta agree
nicotine is more addictive than cocaine, I’d never touch the stuff
but gun to my head? I’d take a cig over a vape any day. looks soo much better
woah, that sounds dangerously close to saying this is all just developing computer software. Don’t you know we’re trying to build God???