• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Imagine telling the original artist right after they finished it that in 113 years time people would be posting his/her creation in full color and high fidelity on a communications system that instantly made it accessible to anyone in the world. That would completely blow their mind.

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      6 months ago

      Now imagine also telling them the situation in the meme is the same or worse 113 years later and they will cry.

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      6 months ago

      “Wow, so with all that innovation things are better?”

      “Look I don’t know how to tell you this but we definitely aren’t making the most of our new technology and medicine.”

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        “Wow, so with all that innovation things are better?”

        I mean… things are better, just not nearly as much as they should be.