• arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days 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

        • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          16 days 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…

          • Zetta@mander.xyz
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            16 days 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.

            • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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              16 days 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.

              • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
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                6 days 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