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Personally, I'm really bad at motivating myself to do anything if, in my head, I don't "have to". When I have a job, I "have to" work. I like working just to get out of the house regularly. I work for family though and also enjoy the company of my coworkers a lot, so maybe not the normal circumstances but still.

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If it wasn’t malicious, technology making things easier would have made life cheaper too.

Practically said it for me, soon as I read OP's headline...highly doubt those that built the pyramids would turn down the electric forklift.

I feel like the wide majority of sane people are like this

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I weighed my titties on a kitchen weight once. Totally doable.

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How so? You know the farthest reaches of what science can do? Please educate me all knowing master. Because you have no clue and just talking out of your butt. Top of their field scientists don't even know the farthest reaches of scientific possibility, it's daily being expanded and more understood. But yet you say it's common sense what science can and can't do. That's the most obvious example of ignorance I have ever been a part of.

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That’s amazing! I’m really excited for their new earbuds that will supposedly translate languages in real time

I mean, I love my job and spend much of my free time in wild lands, of which there is plenty. My life is full of meaning and rich experience, and I'm pretty much a poor quasi-hippie with a dirty, blue collar job.

I mean, without technology, how would you not live a barefoot hunter gatherer "cave" life?

I know people who subsistence live off grid, and even they use plenty of technology to make life easier.

Yes, there is plenty of fault to find in our current system, but the "it's too hard" argument is silly. Is it woefully inegalitarian? Yes. Do lots of people struggle to find meaning? Yes. But even the "struggle to find meaning" is a sign of comfort and relative ease.

It's less ignorance and more common sense

Actually I don't know that and that's the only honest answer. To say you know it won't happen is intellectually dishonest. You're comparing a human beings possibilities to the possibilities of science. Unequivocable strawman you're propping up there.

The biggest difference, we have barely scratched the surface of discovery for science, so we literally have no clue how much we can manipulate or innovate. How dare you set limits like you are on science. Scientists have already theorized the possibility of creating synthetic universes, or multi-dimensional reality. I'm sorry you put limits on this world, but your ignorance doesn't set real limits.

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Yes absolutely. Their lies are getting so obvious. Like they used to say "work hard now so your kids dont have to" then it was "we have to work hard until we get new technology then you can stop"

And now its straight up " yeah well we have the technology but if you want to survive youll have to work because life is now crazy expensive for everyone" and I just dont think theyll be able to keep that moto as long as the previous ones. People are getting angry.

For sure, but obviously not everyone has the choice.

you and I both know that's never gonna happen. Or you might know, and just don't want to admit it. There's a possibility that Tom Hanks will perform 100 backflips after reciting Shakespeare and drinking exactly 1.287772984 liters of water on August 24th, 2024 at 9:17 PM eastern time, but does that mean it will ever happen?

I think it is though. At least on some level

Fair enough. However my reply about the technological aspect of it is still true: they expect us to work the same amount we would if we didn’t have technology, even though technology is supposed to make our lives easier.

But I'll tell you what does increase... the idiots who keep posting the same things on here over and over again 🤦‍♂️

Jurassic Park doesn't count. That shit is still realistic AF

But that's only because we have limited understanding of the universe. I agree it's likely that we will not be able to avoid the heat death. But I find it dishonest to say it's impossible to avoid.

Imagine we could create a brand new universe in a lab and somehow transport ourselves into it. We could do this an infinite amount of times. Who knows, and that's my point. We have limited knowledge of what's actually possible in this existence, yet people constantly let the "impossibilities" define what's true and what's not.

I'm on the same page as that. I would say that as much as it is the rich who benefit from it, I imagine it isn't such a deliberate or conscious thing.