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0 pointsjedmeyers11y ago0 comments

So, no one had to obey bosses' commands in previous times?

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TeMPOraL11y ago· 2 in thread

Sure they did. So what?

Just because we always had to do something, doesn't mean we should continue to do so. We always had to die from random stupid illnesses until one guy stumbled over penicillin and the other one figured out that it might be a good idea to wash hands before performing surgery.

The whole concept of progress of mankind is the idea that we should strive to get rid of stupid shit that caused harm, misery and death since the day one.

jedmeyersOP11y ago

You are saying that we should not continue doing what we do not like, and then you proceed to say that "one guy" Alexander Fleming "stumbled over" penicillin. Are you planning to stumble upon a way to relieve people from the need to obey the bosses or you expect someone else to do it?

TeMPOraL11y ago

I was saying that we as human species should strive to get rid of things that cause us misery. The "getting rid of" is the difficult part, as solutions are not always available or sustainable.

And while I'm definitely not the second Fleming or Pasteur and I don't expect myself to stumble upon a way to get us to post-scarcity utopia, I do want to work towards humans getting there. To work alongside other humans, so that our grandchildren don't have to.

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