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smthnclvrr's avatar

My contention with that is that today & the agricultural age are two spaces out of an almost-infinitely many. One of those is a world very much like our own with a lesser emphasis on work, leading to (assuming possibility) a leisure-dominated future such as in Banks' Culture novels or Star Trek (the people who weren't in Starfleet). Another world is one like our own the emphasizes intense competition & work more, leading to a future (again assuming possibility) the em economy. So your dichotomy is false, just because our ancestors had it "worse" (subjectively in most people's opinions, including mine) does not mean we are at the apex of "better", what could be.

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Sieben's avatar

I mean there's a difference between doing crossfit 3 days a week and being a 600lb deadlifter.

I wouldn't feel particularly proud of my status if I earned $15/hr and there were a hundred guys at the gym hovering at my fitness level.

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