• NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    We all (as in Americans) need to come to grips with the fact that we stopped demanding tangible improvements in our lives and not the hypothetical.

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      2 months ago

      I read in Broken Clock Peter Thiel’s book that since a lot of improvements in QOL are due to tech discovered during the space race / growth of US empire, there are multiple generations conditioned to assume that “progress” is automatic.