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Post by weakfish »

mc32 wrote: post #189
hiptobecubic wrote: post #164

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Innovation does just happen, but only under circumstances that need it. People support it because it makes their lives easier. If it doesn't do that then honestly who cares? Don't confuse innovation in general with how many startups the country has.

There has to be some pull. If people are conditioned to be happy with say UBI + Netflix and conditioned to think that you should have a small impact on the planet (little consumption) and your daily needs met (food, shelter) innovation will go down in a generation or so. [to answer weakfish who appears "dead": no it's not wrong to revert to a subsistence existence, but it has trade-offs. Just be aware of the trade-of…

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Post by rbanffy »

cm2012 wrote: post #221
lettergram wrote: post #99

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> Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better Let me translate “you are slaves and you rent everything. We base your ability to purchase on a social credit score. But we let you rent houses in our artificially limited VR world.” I don’t make much of predictions like these. It’s ALWAYS a safe bet to assume people will lose liberty. To the point the FED was created in 1913, research w…

This is one of the wrongest comments I've ever seen on HN, hah.

My favorite way to characterize this is "it's not even wrong".

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Post by paxys »

haunter wrote: post #15

>Similar reforms apply to cooking, a great deal of which will survive among old fashioned people, but a great deal more of which will probably be avoided by the use of synthetic foods. This is very interesting especially if you think "synthetic foods" not just literally but as take out, processed products and such. I know a lot of young professional people who technically never cook. Like almost never and whatever th…

The idea of communal kitchens is nothing new. Young unmarried professionals weren't cooking their own meals a hundred years ago either. In urban areas you'd have landladies providing supper, food carts, delivery boys, even subscription meal plans. So not much has changed in that regard.

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Post by stareblinkstare »

antux wrote: post #159
overthemoon wrote: post #35

It's interesting to compare this to the WEF future projections: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... Especially with regards to this passage:: "In 2022 [economic development] will be as finished as it is to-day in England. American wealth will then be either developed or known, and all of it will belong to somebody. There will be no more opportunity in America than there is in England to-da…

> Those Americans will know that it is practically certain that they will die much in the same position as the ones in which they were born. Those Americans will therefore be less enterprising and much more pleasure loving. You can see this today with the anti-work movement and the overindulgence in tv shows, movies, porn, junk food, social media, and video games. All these things are corrupting the future generation…

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Post by rbanffy »

beaconstudios wrote: post #154
lettergram wrote: post #127

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You can read the “Great Reset” book to get a wider view of their vision. They’ve been talking about this for a long time https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/

And predicting the fall of the US... Makes them both nazis and communists? I'm confused by your argument.

It's really hard to be both far-right and far-left at the same time.

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Post by frockington1 »

Server6 wrote: post #214
mstade wrote: post #58

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> This is very interesting especially if you think "synthetic foods" not just literally but as take out, processed products and such. I know a lot of young professional people who technically never cook. Like almost never and whatever they have at home is just snacks, if you hungry > order. There are a lot people like these. Anecdata – I'm on of these people. I live in central Stockholm, Sweden, and almost any hour o…

I did this for a decade and gained 60lb. I've since lost it, mainly from cooking at home.

Reduced sodium probably lowered your blood pressure as well

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Post by stareblinkstare »

jugg1es wrote: post #233

The most striking to me are passages like this: "It is practically certain that in 2022 nearly all women will have discarded the idea that they are primarily "makers of men". Most fit women will then be following an individual career." ... "But it is unlikely that that women will have achieved equality with men."

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Post by atlgator »

overthemoon wrote: post #35

It's interesting to compare this to the WEF future projections: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... Especially with regards to this passage:: "In 2022 [economic development] will be as finished as it is to-day in England. American wealth will then be either developed or known, and all of it will belong to somebody. There will be no more opportunity in America than there is in England to-da…

In the context of conquering "the land" from East to West, I think the articles sentiments are spot on. The conclusion that Americans would settle long term is open to debate. The frontier discussed in the article is a physical one, conquered by hard labor and sweat. And while Americans did succeed and enjoy (physically) lighter days now, the author failed to predict we'd find a new frontier, a digital one. The hard labor is now done in the mind, even if we spend too much time binging Rick & Morty.

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Post by RajT88 »

beaconstudios wrote: post #162
lettergram wrote: post #158

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Read the book, look into the forums content, funding sources, history, etc I was pointing out the anti-United states propaganda has been going on for years.

I'm not going to do all that to verify your comment. It strikes me as an absurd claim, at least in part because nazis and communists are opposites, and everybody is predicting the fall of the US' dominance to China these days. The WEF is just liberal capitalism. The trend towards technofeudalism (everyone is renting their existence from big corps) has been going on for a while, at the hands of capitalists. Because it…

If I am not mistaken "The Great Reset" is written by Glenn Beck. I may be wrong, as there are several books with that name, but the Beck book is the one most likely to involve railing against Nazis and Communists.

You can get a sense for Beck's work here:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=Glenn+beck

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