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To me this comment reads like a lot of bending over backwards to try to the justify a gut feeling of “yea but for sure this time is different right??”

Tech elites on HN worrying about the moral fortitude of the unwashed masses in the face of the technological changes they themselves have brought about…it’s all a bit too “self-important loathing” imo.

Everything’s fine and going to be fine.

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immibis 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Everything's not fine, hasn't been fine for at least a decade, and it's not at all certain that everything is going to be fine.

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mvdtnz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Everything has never and will never be completely fine. Things are better today than ever and continue to improve. Get offline and look around the real world for a while.

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karaterobot 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Things are certainly better overall, but that improvement is not universal, and not evenly distributed. Clearly. Otherwise, we would simply say "everything is as good as it can practically be," which is something few people are doing. One of the ways in which the world is imperfect is that our media—and our relationship to that media—could be better. Anything in that to disagree with?

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tolerance 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What real world?

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immibis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By most metrics, things were better about a decade ago. We're on a downward trajectory now. Except by GDP.

	▲	reissbaker 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What metrics do you think were better in 2015?
	▲	mvdtnz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What metrics? Do you think the millions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last decade would agree?