• msage@programming.dev
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    8 days ago

    A lot of different comments, and I know this is a greentext, but I wonder what people here think about americans who have 3 jobs and can only barely pull through?

    Such people have nothing more to lose, everybody constantly keeps forgetting about them, the homeless, sick people… the list goes on.

    And I’m not saying acceleration is good, but for the lost people, nothing good is coming from any side. And the pressure keeps getting worse. Even from the democrats.

    So what is the solution, achievable as the world is now?

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Such people have nothing more to lose,

      This is a very big flaw in that kind of argument. It might look like that but there are plenty of worse situations human beings have been in historically. There is no war going on, food and clean water and shelter (even with heating and lighting) are actually available,…