And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
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architect@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then it doesn’t serve its purpose of solving the Fermi paradox.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
architect@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Absolutely.
And as you can see, fiction scales better than truth.