Societal choice means that we as a society are aware of whats going on and choose to keep it this way. And its simply not the case. Most people arent aware of the injustices and thise of us who do are absolutely not OK with the way it is.

Also I wasnt telling you personally to "get fucking lost" it was meant as a " I dont want to argue with any dumbass who disagrees with this".

Until we beat thermodynamics…? Seems unlikely from where we are now, but so was going to mars 300 years ago

The heat death of the sun and eventual collapse of the universe might mean that death is inevitable

I beg you to go watch Titanic on a newer TV.. you will be gobsmacked at what we were impressed by. It looks like Thomas the tank engine graphics..

Infinite? I don't think it's infinite. But yes, the number one cause to say death is inevitable is the existence of aging. The rest are variables and you can't say death is inevitable if it's up to luck. Then you can say death is likely or probable but not guaranteed.

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One less of the infinite amount of ways we could die?

I agree, but those circumstances aren't guaranteed like OP is suggesting. Aging is a sure fire way of guaranteeing death, and if we master aging then death has one less hold on us.

Tell that to the guy who had to go up a mountain to get blocks of ice for people’s ice boxes. Be thankful for your refrigerator!

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I think you misinterpreted what I was saying, I’m in full agreement of you. I don’t believe it’s a choice either, I’m overworked and making hardly enough too. But I do believe it’s a societal thing, as a result of the rich making it that way. I thought the original commenter was referring to “societal choice” meaning society has made that decision FOR us as “that’s the way it’s going to be”. Maybe I misinterpreted that

This mf likes that totalitarian shit amiright, that dictatorshit straight up buzzin - hobbes

No, you do not need an absolute number. You do not need to know how many people are alive at any given moment to know that "The number of people older than you never increases". There are always fewer unless some are born older than you.

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You joking

Its not and its not a choice. Its a rich people thing. They are the ones making us work more for less. If you think people making 40k$/ a year are choosing to work more and arent working more just to survive now. Please get the fuck out.

That's not really the point. The point is despite having technology which allows work to be done more easily and also extremely more productively, we still have to work full time to get by. Granted, we have to work much fewer hours than those in the past. But if you just think about the transition between before and after the birth of the mainstream computer, productivity has gone up dramatically, but working hours haven't seen a similarly dramatic decrease in hours necessary to earn a living.

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>The fact that we tend to use that extra time to work more is a societal choice (or maybe flaw), not a reflection on the technology itself.

Lmao absolutely not. It's not a choice. And if it made thing "easier" is up to interpretation. All it did was help capitalism to get the rich richer and the poor poorer. There was no societal choice to work more. Only capitalist greed that force us to work more for less. And all technologies are just a way to make that go faster and produce more.

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I think you are.

You have to know the number to verify, you can't go through life assuming based on Fuzzy-Wuzzy non-practical applications.

The number represents a data point and that data point cannot be verified to be 100% accurate.

If the number is not 100% accurate then a reconciliation could cause the number to increase, thus proving your claim incorrect.

I think you are having a hard time grasping the fact that when applied, your observation falls short. It's okay to be wrong, you just need to revise.

Wonder how old OP is... not sure he/she has already worked hard, like physicaly hard... Some times, the only thing needed is to go out and see how the world is going

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I too would be interested too