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      Low latency cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet using LEO satellites is undeniably cool future tech.

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        I would like this but also have those phones have a no logs policy so they cannot be used to track you or figure out where you were previously, at least without your consent.

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      Exactly. I would like cybernetic arms and legs and eyes that let me scan everything. But instead we get the most boring dystopia.

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    No, see, I made all my money by inheriting it, and because I’m rich and wealthy that means that god must love me, and therefore I must be a good person inherently. People are poor because god doesn’t love them, therefore they must be bad people. Duh. /s

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      [Moe throwing Barney out meme with label “divine right of kings” on first panel and “oligarchy” on second panel]

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    So we’re going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?

    We’re going to do that, right?

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          I guess it could be said that the sort of wealth disparity that we have shouldn’t exist

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            what if we didnt have money and cooperated (fucking impossible though because of greed)

            what if the return to monke meme wasnt a meme

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                We’re wired to cooperate. Not compete. That compete part is a relatively recent thing. Last couple thousand years. And not everywhere.

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                  Humans are wired to cooperate mainly if it helps them compete. Basically they cooperate more than any other animal. But cooperation is a means to the end of out competing other groups. That said, there doesn’t seem to be any hard science either way, so this is just my opinion, and your opinion holds equal value.

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    I do somewhat disagree with this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much on the eat the rich train. But, while not due to elons personal “brilliance” space x has cut the cost of going to space by a huge amount. And so many amazing things have come out of the space program

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      Sure, if by “Elon’s brilliance” you mean decades of Congress forcing NASA to outsource plus a whole lot of engineers none of whom are also CEO

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    Nine out of ten people with enough money and power to steer the system to massively favour them think that things are perfectly fine as they are. Now carry on, peon.

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    The plan is going well. Now all we gotta do is convince all those sonobabiches to get on a Tesla rocket to Mars. As soon as that shit is outta here, we cut off communication and problem solved.

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    The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn’t say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.

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        Pretty much. Though from things I have read they are more likely to be competition addicts. Gambling would be one way to compete with others. But yeah, honestly, I wouldn’t want to be them. I consider most of them mentally ill.

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          They aren’t even happy. By most accounts they lead pretty miserable lives, apart from the exorbitant wealth. But it’s gotta grind some gears when you automatically assume everyone is only friendly to you because of your money.

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    Be the change you want to see! Load up on cold cathode tubes and shove them in your PC or wherever else you can think of!

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    It’s Neo, also I kinda agree. Though how to fix it is the tricky part.

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      It’s neon.

      Some old book has a monologue where a character says “I am neon” and the context is that they see themselves as beautiful and transient.

      The subtext is that the neon gas in a neon light is just a medium power is passed through to produce some useful outcome through its interaction with the coating in the lamp (light). The neon itself is thrown away when it outlived its usefulness and no one who receives the light of it cares where it went or what happened to it or why.

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    Sharing twitter posts in a meme sub isn’t the best system either. Don’t expect anything to change with the current quality of discussion.