Comment on It's been downhill since 2020

architect@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Absolutely.

    And as you can see, fiction scales better than truth.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

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      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then it doesn’t serve its purpose of solving the Fermi paradox.

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