You’d be working the fields. You’d be working the ice hauler.
Just in time
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Tetragrade@leminal.space 14 hours ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
REMEMBER THE CANT
SuperNinjaFury@midwest.social 6 hours ago
I feel like everyone saying op is glorifying the past and future seems to be missing the fact that this is a shitpost.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Born too late to be killed in a siege for a castle I work around.
Too early to die in a fire accident aboard my transport ship to my corporate slave workplace.
Just in time to be a corporate slave.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
You’re in the good times right now.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
That’s the worst part
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
I technically disagree, most periods human history had “good times” and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.
kandoh@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
You make an excellent point, my only rebuttal would be that on average people are have become much kinder and more compassionate as they’ve moved up on the hierarchy of needs. Which I believe demonstrates that an ever increasing amount of people are living in comfort and security in our current world, much more than in the 1500s, though I’m sure you could find them.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 day ago
The first and second images are fantasy.
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The first and second images are fantasy.
Even if you concede “Knights exist” and “Astronauts exist”, the idea that you’re going to be a knight much less a fucking astronaut relative to being a subsistence farmer or a digital desk jockey…
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great
That’s the other joke, though. Both these images are of people marching off to war. Presumably, these knights are going to the Holy Land to bake in the hot sun and shit themselves to death from cholera. Meanwhile, the interstellar colony ships are going to be rationing everything from calories to moles of oxygen.
The modern era guy doing a simple 9-5 desk job, then going home to fuck his hot wife and play catch with his adorable kids has it pretty great by comparison.
tatann@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Last image from 2nd line is cyberpunk, that’s what a techno-fascist country is becoming. OP might be able to live it, he just have to move to the US (or wait if he already lives there)
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Even being a king of that time would be a brutal life in a lot of ways. Death all around and a piss-poor chance of surviving any given year with every bit of your body intact and functional, extremely limited dietary variety, and the smell. Oh god the smell.
Johanno@feddit.org 15 hours ago
A pitchfork still could kill a knight in armor. And then you have a horse and armor
Urfgurgle@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
No it can’t, not unless you get incredibly lucky.
Rooster326@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Horse thievery is a hanging offense, hanging offense.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Nah, the past was filled with peasants dying of infections and dysentery. The future will just be the Pony Express crew from Mouthwashing. Honestly, I don’t even know what member I’d choose to be since they all went out horrifically.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The middle ain’t ever comin’ my guy
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
And the fist one we’d still be the peasants not knights.
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still think it would be more fulfilling to plant crops rather than “keeping the KPI up”, “limiting the exceptions rate” or “moving a button 3px to the left”…
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Something something Enrico fermi
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nothing that is heavier than air could ever fly.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And the first never existed in the way imagined.
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 1 day ago
I dunno, middle right looks to me like a cyberpunk dystopia with heavy smog. We can pretty much do that right now!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
You won’t be a knight, more like a farmer.
I don’t like farms, no thanks. So much bugs. My grandparents, while working on the farms, got bitten by some worm that sucks your blood, ouch, don’t want that.
(Also if you are conscripted in medieval era, knives and swords and arrows hurt like hell, at least a bullet is a quick clean death)
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t even want to live in a 17th castle! Just living in a modern apartment, in a modern neighborhood is vastly more comfortable than a dank, non-AC, poop in a chute castle.
Oh but we can sit around a campfire. Thats not so bad at least.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Yeah, camping and campfires are nice. They are nice because they are temporary and by choice.
FatTony@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That top panel is just Elden Ring?
TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Fantasy was always fantasy
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 day ago
Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
While being forced to travel literal lightyears away from everyone they ever knew, and potentially outliving everyone they care about due to relativity shenanigans.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Now replace the future with how Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 looks like.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
At least we have air conditioning
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Speak for yourself!
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Part4@infosec.pub 1 day ago
The future represented in this image has little chance of actually happening: it is the mythology of fossil fuel powered capitalist society, which has expanded past the planet’s environmental limits but needs to expand somewhere, or admit it is at the end of its useful life.
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Do we think that’s actually true, though? Life, all life, has a tendency to spread out when a niche is open in a new environment which it can fill, and there’s nothing shown there that isn’t technically within the bounds of humanity. Before capitalism, before humans were even Homo sapiens, we were already migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia. The drive to explore is, in my opinion, deeply human, and nothing says that the model of that exploration or expansion needs to be capitalistic. We wouldn’t have colonized the world in prehistory if it did.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
People expanded to places with resources that they could live in, or bring back home. There are no resources that we know of in space that are not more easily accessed on Earth, and living out there would require a material investment from Earth that would be devastating.
Most of the Earth is currently empty of humans, while space is colder than Antarctica, and less accessible than both the top of Everest and the bottom of the Mariana trench. You could build a city in any of those 3 places easier than even low-earth-orbit and any other celestial body would be thousands of times harder still.
Part4@infosec.pub 11 hours ago
‘The drive to explore’ is from Star Trek.
The US retold its origin story (the expansion West) through Westerns in the 50’s.
Particularly because the US won the space race, tv, and Hollywood, retold a future origin story expanding into space. Many American people I come into contact with online really seem to have bought it, even though Star Trek portrays a communist society. The cognitive dissonance is on a national scale.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Life has a tendency to spread when new environments are available, yes.
But beyond this planet, there are no other environments. You might say the rest of the universe is antivironment. There is a wide range of possible conditions, of radiation and tempurature, gravity and molecular composition. Life requires a very very narrow and specific set of those conditions to continue.
Going from one continent to another, within the same atmosphere, with the same underlying set of conditions, is not all that much of a change. Actually leaving the planet? Permanently? And without just dying in the attempt? That would require a level of organization, long term planning (like, centuries long term), and resource management that we as a species have yet to demonstrate.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Hah, as if the current fucked up trajectory will ever bring us to a future of high tech space exploration.
The way things are going Mankind is vastly more likely to end up in some Dystopia were society has regressed to outright Feudalism and the most technological advanced stuff are at best mass distraction devices or some kind of ML-based social mass manipulator, possibly just the implanted equivalent of slave shock-collars and the systems to control large number of those.
We’re not currently evolving, we’re devolving.
Gladaed@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Assuming that space ships like in sci Fi are even physically possible. That’s a tall ask. Momentum and energy are a bitch.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Using materials obtained outside the Earth’s gravity well, we can make much larger ships than of launching them from the surface of Earth. Of course that requires some kind of materials processing facilities in space, which is depending on stuff like Moon bases and the years of development of materials science in low and zero-gravity environments possible in those.
Further, the Apolo Program has most definitelly shown we can buy progress. Not “beyond the known principles of present day science” progress (so, no amount of money is going to get us FTL travel) but certainly Engineering progress (so solar sail towed asteroids, moon mining, moon-based nuclear reactors, mass drivers to push loads from the Moon surface into orbit, alternative ship designs using materials found outside the Earth’s surface and/or low weight designs such as the insuflable space stations that were at one point suggested and even test at a small scale, and so on).
It wasn’t by chance that what I suggested was asteroid mining and Mars stations rather than interstellar travel - the money wasted in the Iraq invasion alone over the decades since could have built the infrastructure needed, to get the engineeringe experience required to be able to do those things.
Instead, we have Facebook, over the counter credit derivatives and LLMs.
pseudo@jlai.lu 1 day ago
What kind of slop is the second image!
parlaptie@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Yeah Like who would kiss in full armor. She’s not even kissing the guy she’s just missing the metal.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
OG heavy metal fan.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How dangerous were women in the past, that you had to wear full plate armor when near them?
BilSabab@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
this is extra funny when someone laments like this in Ukraine. Compared with some of our “too late” periods - we’re having it good.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why noy 2 and 3? Enter Starsector, the future we are slowly headed towards.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We had EVE Online, which i never bothered with so my info here is 2nd hand, but in that game you could fly space ships and engage in a fantasy sci-fi MMO universe.
People were working in banks there. Full on 9-5 jobs in a game about space.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I paid $15 a month to haul bulk cargo in a freighter.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
How do you imagine space exploration would be?
“Now you can also help discover space
~by working as a minimum wage welder in the bottom of this ship~”
The bankers will just have a per solar system stock market the way we are heading
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Eve is still kicking. Good game, but why the hell would people want to work in a bank? I mean there were a few headlines about it basically being a massive scam and the guy who did it, bought himself an entire fleet. And dared people to get him.
Eve attracts a certain type of people.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Didn’t show ‘mind the size of a planet, but stocking shelves’.
But, I guess I’m happy to be here.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I hate to break it to you. But if you were born back then, you wouldn’t be a knight. You wouldn’t be an explorer. You’d be a peasant. Working your farm from birth to grave.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Yeah, this is very much glorifying the past, and probably the future. Medieval peasants would dream of sitting in a warm cubicle, well fed, while scrolling lemmy, if they could imagine it. Space colonization is probably impossible too.
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Still more leisure time then now.
sus@programming.dev 9 hours ago
That is mostly a myth. They may have worked less than people at the height of the industrial revolution, but even a laborer who was paid a salary had to spend at least several hours per day on average on “not work” things like food preparation, home maintenance, feeding livestock, gathering firewood, repairing and cleaning clothing. Many tasks that are trivial today were highly arduous.
Then to top it all off it was fairly common for the local lord to force them to do extra labor without pay, like maintaining roads or training in a militia.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Even if you were a knight. Most knights lived shitty lives and didn’t have armor and maidens that glamorous.