OP, please read the community rules. c/asklemmy is a clone of r/askreddit. Itβs not for your long-form shower thoughts followed by, "What do you think?"
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A utopia would include advanced technology to enable post scarcity without human effort, advanced medicine and longevity, and a high upper limit on human power. The middle ages were horrible.
Damn, it seems like no one realized that it was a joke.
Yay, die by 35 of some disease that used to be totally preventable in the past! Utopia!
No no, thatβs right now, in the United States
It seems like it's not just in the US, it seems like it's also in UK and France. Although I'm not entirely sure, I've read complaints from those who left there before.
Damn, people are so tired of life these days that they've even forgotten that there is such a thing as sarcasm.
Are you a bot?
No, I just used a translator. Although since the theory of the dead internet becomes reality, it is difficult to understand who is not a bot.
Were the Middle Ages a utopia?
This is my kind of humor. :3
we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.
Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn't a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.
So you mean "will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources"
Also, we don't have "total control" over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.
You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don't- you can just go live in the forest.
Then you pivot to saying "I'm being sarcastic - it wouldn't be a utopia because we wouldn't have AI"
AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.
I would also contend that society isn't drastically different post-internet. It's the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.
If you're an ignorant neckbeard.
Well, I'm afraid that such a future is likely to await us, but I suppose not immediately, I think after decades of total control.