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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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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.
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It's worse than that. Those same people who said that stuff--later during the height of the Depression, 1932-33, they were saying things like "If they want jobs let them go find some!" and "Let the okies starve they're worthless anyway!" Go read through thousands of pages of period newspaper on microfilm like I have if you don't believe me. "I've got mine, screw you!" is a mindset as old as humanity. It's still around now, to be sure. We as a species don't really have the instinct to give a crap about much beyond ourselves and immediate family/friends. At least we're better than felids in that sense.
Note that one of the foundations of "Star Trek"- style socialism is the elimination of scarcity of resources thanks to their magical replicators. That's the mcguffin that makes it work, and we don't have that today.
Danth