Reply To: The recent "discovery" of Dark Matter

[Rezwan]

Warwick wrote:
Except that many people would be perfectly justified, in today’s world, to correctly assume that someone else will have your job if you don’t kill yourself working. And the idea that “the hoarding survivalist generations will pass” supposes incorrectly that long work-weeks are a voluntary choice on behalf of the employed.

Work is so uneven. I know a lot of people who have to maintain the appearance of working at work, but are really surfing the internet. Others who work like dogs. I’m not sure we have it so bad compared to the generations of yore who woke up at 4 am every day to milk the cows or who worked the 12 hour shifts in the factories. And in Iran, few people seem to work at all. Posing at the office, getting a paycheck from oil dollars. Some unlucky people doing really difficult unpleasant work. Many people living off the paychecks of a few… very unproductive society. And that pesky “Matthew effect” adding to the unfairness of it all.

By “hoarding survivalist generation” – I didn’t mean it was their voluntary choice, but they have been conditioned. Of course, circumstances have to change first. We have to be in a defacto world of effectively unlimited resources, such as one with unlimited energy…

Wait. No, that’s not it. Maybe we’re all hoarders, no matter what. Human nature. I think there’s plenty to go around now if we weren’t such hoarders. But you see how shrill people get when someone tries to suggest sharing and such. So, I don’t think, given our nature, we can share. The only solution is to not have to share, to live in a world of unlimited resources. In other words, I guess I give up on people. They are at heart, little petty creatures. Who really make things unpleasant for each other. So let them drown in sugar and abundance!

Hmm. That’s depressing. I didn’t realize the implications of my thoughts. I must meditate on this. I don’t think it’s coming from a good place.

I shall take a rest from posting and get back to what I was supposed to work on as well!