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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

True, but 1,000 years ago it sucked a lot more. Now we have some advantages. Even access to the internet is a good quality of life improvement compared to 1025 CE.

So maybe instead 1,000 years the inequality still exists, but technology has made things a little nice for the working class. It's all about perspective.

Or the climate crisis and subsequent environmental collapse lead to a Mad Max hellscape

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

1,000 years ago it sucked a lot more

1000 years ago we didn't have a surveillance state, climate collapse, tiktok, 4chan, drone strikes, school shootings, car accidents, car dependent infrastructure, pollution smog, microplastics, fox news, subscription services, hiring AI, police robots, the gig economy, leafblowers, overdraft fees, airbnb, overseas concentration camps, white phosphorous, fracking...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah, there's a lot of bad, but he's right. On average, the vast majority of humanity is significantly better off than we were a thousand years ago.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Africa is struggling to recover from colonisation. The middle east is a warzone. The Americas and Australia are being occupied by invaders. Europe is in financial crisis. I don't really know about east Asia. Even Antarctica is melting. Capitalism is worse for the worker than feudalism.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Oh come on, only America and Australia are occupied? Where did your ancestors evolve? Who did your ancestors take their land from because they took it from someone

Edit: for the record I'm indigenous but your argument is flawed and narrowsighted

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You don't seem to understand the fact that the vast majority of humanity is still better off than we were a 1000 years ago even with the current bad.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China, India, The Americas, Australia, many parts of Africa? Life was good there.

Even Europe was not that bad. If you had many more free days, work that was meaningful and unprocessed food, how bad would it be to die earlier? In total, they still had more days of life for themselves.

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