> But I assert that it will always be a tiny percentage of the whole
US/Uk life expectancy is falling, and more people are in precarious work than ever before.
You can't just wish away these problens and pretend they don't exist
Why do you posit that life expectancy will continue to fall? Not sure it's rational to expect an extended reversal of the trends which have been on the increase prior to the past 2 years. Look at the charts and the analyses.
Precarious work? You may need to explain that one.
So what? Slavery and The Plague and Cancer was part of the human condition too.
And its wrong - technological disruption only appreared recently. For ten thousand years my ancestors lived nomadic lives on the eurasian plains, their lives were disrupted when a gun and a steam engine were invented few hundred years ago.
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'human condition sucks and the only way to fix it is with disruption'?
Are you just making it up as you go along? Do you feel the need to justify disruption at any cost?
Now, we cannot suppress technological disruption either, we can regulate and channel it, but you won't be getting your pastoral society back in which everything stays as is for a few thousand years . I think that's good, you Kay think that's bad, but it just is.
I am just pointing out that the post by halr9000 and your post both try to put disruption on the pedestal, but the arguments are mutually exclusive, and in fact they profess opposite values.
I got a confused, through both posts were made by the same person, hence 'making it up as you go along', sorry about that.