• @arrow74@lemm.ee
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        22 months 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.cafe
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          -12 months 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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            12 months 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.cafe
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              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.

              • 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

              • @Zetta@mander.xyz
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                02 months 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.

                • @plyth@feddit.org
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                  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.

    • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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      12 months ago

      What if it’s full medieval and the king just ordered an expedition to the great library to bring back electricity?

      Good news is, you’ll have memes back if you skip some years.

    • LoudWaterHombre
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      02 months ago

      Can you elaborate your win when humanity died out and you are the only one left?

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        Don’t have to get permission to live, fishing regulations no longer apply so it shouldn’t be too hard getting food. Also the sea and rivers won’t be polluted like they are now.

        • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          Or everything is polluted and that’s why humanity died

          Are the fish adapted to a mercury rich environment safe to eat?