The full quote is "In some important ways, my generation has failed you", which I think drastically changes the meaning from the one in the headline, which is clickbaity.
Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’
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...the problem is, I'm not really convinced that we really know of a specific "something" that we can do that wouldn't backfire and make emissions even worse by creating perverse incentives elsewhere in the economy. The only idea I've heard that would likely help in a meaningful way would be to simply make all domestic oil and natural gas extraction 100% illegal and try to convince some other nations to do the same.…
That doesn't even sound feasible, to be honest- humanity currently needs plastic for a billion medical things, for one- and if you outlaw extraction , then another company will go "gee, thanks!", open the valves, charge more, and make a ton of money. Getting things off of oil is going to take a long time.
You would still allow imports of oil from countries that don't participate in the ban, with high tariffs added. This would still make oil available for medical use cases etc.
The bottom line is the only way to prevent oil from being turned into CO2 is to simply leave the oil in the ground.
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...the problem is, I'm not really convinced that we really know of a specific "something" that we can do that wouldn't backfire and make emissions even worse by creating perverse incentives elsewhere in the economy. The only idea I've heard that would likely help in a meaningful way would be to simply make all domestic oil and natural gas extraction 100% illegal and try to convince some other nations to do the same.…
Technology is the only way. Even slightly curbing economic activity to decrease emissions will not be politically popular enough to be implemented (see: yellow vest protests). Additionally global coordination is required meaning a system where individual countries can cheat to get economic gains will fail.
I agree that technological solutions are probably the only thing that is viable. my point is mainly to say that these silly half measures such as carbon taxes are a waste of time and are possibly just making the problem even worse.
The only way to make sure that oil doesn't get turned into CO2 is to simply leave the oil in the ground.
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#45Rich person: "Don't blame the rich, blame the old."
Tim Cook is 58, so I think it's possible to argue that he's both.
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I think there are numerous ways in which Tim Cook's generation has failed the next generation (at least in the US). * Wages are flat, * Housing costs are up (in large part due to NIMBYism), * College is more expensive (in large part due to Cook's generation cutting subsidies that they got), * Environment is shot- that whole global warming thing isn't going away anytime soon. Generally speaking the baby boomers, as a…
What are you asking for? The world has changed drastically, culture and preferences have changed drastically, and new technological tools make the job and economic landscape entirely different than earlier. That's not Baby Boomers' fault. Are you really going to blame them for not predicting the future well enough? Baby boomers aren't forcing young folks to like living in cities more than suburbs. They're not malicio…
On the whole, I too agree with Pinker. But I don't think it's necessarily mutually exclusive with one generation "failing" another (I hate that wording because it feels reductionist).
If the claim is true that the millennial generation is the first to have a lower quality of life than their parents, that sounds a lot like a failure to manage resources given the prosperity you cited. How can we be at the most prosperous time yet have a generation worse off than the previous? It seems like it's either a failure of values, mismanagement of resources, or bad metrics.
Put another way, if this was a company that was posting record sales and margins yet somehow posting worse profits than the previous CEO, wouldn't that at least raise some eyebrows?
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The whole consumer electronics industry is stuck. Everyone has a phone. PC sales are flat and mostly to business. (Desktop PCs are now like commercial trucks. Every business uses them, but nobody gets excited about them. They're expected to last a long time and have low operating cost.) Tablets were a niche. 3D TV was a total flop. VR headsets are a niche. IoT turned out to be mostly voice terminals for services. No…
And everything that will be invented has been invented. I'm going to guess that something in the future will be revolutionary. It might just be a while. Humans went millennia without electricity, and then everything kinda shot up- I wouldn't be surprised if humanity takes another step up the QoL stairs in a couple hundred years.
But not soon enough to keep the factories in Shenzhen and the sales at the Apple store going. If it's going to be the Next Big Thing in the next three years, it has to be in prototype now.
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