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Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
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Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#12Today, the location of your birth is the dominating factor in what life you will be able to enjoy and how much will you be able to contribute, ethnicity, religion, and other common bases for discrimination pale in comparison.
The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally. Why should the place of your birth or the citizenship of your parents should mandate which countries you are allowed to visit and in which markets you are allowed to participate?
If the trajectory of liberalism continuous its march (a consistent trend for hundreds of years, but not a certain one), then the citizenship system that we as a world have crafted will be either replaced by a more sensical one or entirely scratched (i.e. open borders). I hope that this happens within my lifetime.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#13Today, the location of your birth is the dominating factor in what life you will be able to enjoy and how much will you be able to contribute, ethnicity, religion, and other common bases for discrimination pale in comparison. The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally. Why should the place of your birth or the citizenship of your parents should mandate which countries you are allowed to vi…
I can't see how that would be possible, unless every country is equally wealthy and all wars and conflicts cease.
What's anyone's incentive for staying in Syria, Iraq, Cuba, or Ukraine when bad things happen? What is going to keep people in their birth place, when they could earn orders of magnitude more in other countries?
Then again, the far reaching implications of extensive automation could lead to this. We'll see!
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#14> What are we doing wrong now, which the general public isn't aware of currently? Industrial animal farming. Deforestation and greenhouse gases from it are destroying the planet when you don't need meat to be healthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p... > "The livestock sector is also the primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon, with around 80% of all converted land being used to rea…
Agree. But we need to return to regenerative agriculture instead of plow, replant, and we get to keep our meat!
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#15Today, the location of your birth is the dominating factor in what life you will be able to enjoy and how much will you be able to contribute, ethnicity, religion, and other common bases for discrimination pale in comparison. The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally. Why should the place of your birth or the citizenship of your parents should mandate which countries you are allowed to vi…
> The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally.
In usa i found it weird that kids are only allowed to go to certain schools which fall in a geographic area.
Why can't they go to any school that they please. Isn't this much simpler problem to solve than getting rid of citizenship.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#16I think disconnecting will be a considerable part of the future when AR and VR or whatever will be around is a huge thing. It is already a thing now. Some people assume you write them back in Whatsapp in minutes. With health, I think the gut will play a significant role and also psychology. So many symptoms people develop have their roots in psychological problems.
The addiction to news/social media is similar problem, like smoking, but destroying brain instead of lungs. Good point with mental health, maybe we should make psychological checkups common thing, like health or dental checkups, every year or so and not when we're sick.
Apps that are designed to be addicting. We'll look back on that as evil insanity.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#17The disintegration of the nuclear family due to sociological and technological forces.
For a preview, look at the black community where over 7/10 kids are born to single moms (for comparison, this number was below 3/10 in 1965).
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#18Putting profits over people.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#19The existence of the military and state sanctioned murder squads.
https://www.radford.edu/gmartin/Immoral%20to%20serve%20in%20...
At the moment, it seems that the vast majority of people carve out a special ethical exception for the military but I suspect this will change over time. Many futurist/sci-fi dystopian scenarios have the general shape of the Terminator movies with autonomous killing machines roaming the planet. If these proliferate, perhaps the terror of that reality will bring into focus the immorality of using force to achieve geopolitical goals. And it feels like we're getting uncomfortably close to that future.
https://twitter.com/DocBunker/status/1270390796978536450
https://www.ausa.org/publications/mission-command-and-armed-...
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
#20Today, the location of your birth is the dominating factor in what life you will be able to enjoy and how much will you be able to contribute, ethnicity, religion, and other common bases for discrimination pale in comparison. The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally. Why should the place of your birth or the citizenship of your parents should mandate which countries you are allowed to vi…
I can't see how that would be possible, unless every country is equally wealthy and all wars and conflicts cease. What's anyone's incentive for staying in Syria, Iraq, Cuba, or Ukraine when bad things happen? What is going to keep people in their birth place, when they could earn orders of magnitude more in other countries? Then again, the far reaching implications of extensive automation could lead to this. We'll se…
Those that can leave, leave. Why leave the poor behind to be fodder in a war?