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[–] 60 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Same thing happened to the millennials... It's almost like it's planned...

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    As a millennial (in the middle) I legit assumed this was referring to me 😅

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Lets have another world war…

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    No... no.... No.

    Let's have some weird destablizing tech that rich people cannot control or bank on to level the playing field a little. (No, not AI - something like pre-2010 internet). That or aliens, who have the sole goal of trading with us only once our Gini coefficient drops to less than 0.05

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    I'll put on my best Keiko voice and disappointed stare.

    "But Miles, where do you think the matter replicators get their matter from? And where does the power to run them come from? Until there is a complete and total change in human philosophy regarding the accumulation of wealth, any required resource will become the new vehicle of capitalistic control."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hah, I guess I wasn't thinking far enough into the Trekkiverse.

    I had recently read a book that had replicator-like technology but the matter stream was a luxury that not everyone could afford to connect to, it was laid out as an analog to the internet or other services like that, so that's where my mind went. I can't for the life of me remember which book that was...

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
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    I will try and dig through my e-reader to find it, but it was a while ago so I might have purged the file.

    On a completely unrelated note, just this week I finished up the last of Greg Egan's works, I've been binging all his stuff. If you haven't read any of his stuff I highly recommend it. They were all so good, but Diaspora and the Orthogonal Trilogy were my standout faves. the Orthogonal Trilogy is so unbelievably deeply technically detailed, it kept me glued to the pages and pages of equations, even if the characters were a little dry. It's all about the universe-building in that one. Egan has an entire website with a massive amount of additional information and details about the physics of that universe.

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