The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

is there anything that could make life worth living

7.9 Billion less people and a communist utopia.

[Lucem Ferre]

Nah, I watched a youtube video that says you're full of **** and overpopulation isn't even remotely an immediate threat to anything. The biggest impact it has is pollution because humans refuse to find salubrious methods to exist because this meaningless thing we made up called money and the power it has over us.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

this is the chicken way out imo

hoping for some tech advancement that may or may not come

and suppose it does, it's a band-aid until grotesque wealth accumulation causes some other horrific problem

the planet doesn't have a scarcity problem, it has an inequality problem

Technological advancement is inevitable and the only real shot we have at improving anything. Most of what would solve the problems I see already exists, but it's early. Lab grown steaks for example. The issue is no different than what Big3 brought up before about energy: it's a matter of bringing down the cost and time to create a new steak so that we no longer need to butcher millions of cows and deal with all of that needless complexity, butchery and waste.

[DwnWthVwls]

We dont need to deal with that needless complexity, butchery, or waste... *cough* vegan *cough*

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

We dont need to deal with that needless complexity, butchery, or waste... *cough* vegan *cough*

True. Never tried vegan meats but I've heard that some are really really good.

[DwnWthVwls]

No comparison taste wise but some if done right can satisfy the texture youd be missing out on..

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by elphenor

maybe for you personally, but millions could benefit from a simple redistribution of wealth

Look how well technological advancement helped Detroit.

Almost as if technology isn't going to automatically fix the inequality issue especially when people don't want to give up the kind of power inequality has given them.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Technological advancement is inevitable and the only real shot we have at improving anything. Most of what would solve the problems I see already exists, but it's early. Lab grown steaks for example. The issue is no different than what Big3 brought up before about energy: it's a matter of bringing down the cost and time to create a new steak so that we no longer need to butcher millions of cows and deal with all of that needless complexity, butchery and waste.

You still need organic matter and energy.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

maybe for you personally, but millions could benefit from a simple redistribution of wealth

I never said it was the only thing that needed to happen. But redistributing wealth doesn't solve scarcity. Society needs to be in a place where scarcity doesn't exist in order to have a foundation where wealth inequality / concentration of too much power with too few people is unlikely to come about.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Look how well technological advancement helped Detroit.

Almost as if technology isn't going to automatically fix the inequality issue especially when people don't want to give up the kind of power inequality has given them.

Technology killed Detroit originally

No man ever spent most of his life in a factory before there were factories

Detroit has never not been a holocaust.