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Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E Humor aside, it's a depressing wor
by secondbreakfast 4y ago
Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E
Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.
- superchroma 4y agoWe could solve a lot of our problems right now if people were prepared to change how they live and accept a decent amount more responsibility (e.g. sort waste by hand, etc.). Scaling up problems typically hasn't helped, and you get novel issues at large scale (e.g. parasites and diseases thrive due to monoculture in huge farms). As Bill Burr noted, we could all drive tanks to work if there weren't as many of us. It's cynical, but there's more room for largesse at small scale.
- secondbreakfast 4y agoLove bill burr
- ErikVandeWater 4y agoSome people are certainly not contributing much brainpower. If only the smartest people were having kids I could see this being true.