I'm really into the idea of, hard progressive socialism, because like, progress makes sense, and it still makes some amount of sense to me, but there are 2 things that I've learned in the last X years.
1. In the 1920s (much like those fun 2010 tech boom years) everyone was like "progress will never stop! The stock market will keep going up and up forever and we're going to all be rich from now on all you have to do is invest on margin!" and then reality set in.
I felt the 2010s were very similar, we really thought Facebook was going to change the world for the better, that apps and smart phones would increase our connectivity and our global consciousness and everything will keep growing and progressing forever because all we have to do is invest in tech companies and boot camps!
2. It has become clear to me that everything I thought would happen, would not have happened like startrek, but would end up identical to china. Yes very efficient, but not exactly the startrek I thought we'd be. Because we're not startrekians, were humans, and humans make good things bad.
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