mysterious frankie posted:

I think we could have kept the mistake going a lot longer if first the the self-obsessed hippie-into-yuppie culture, then the internet, didn't happen. Both made entertainment, ease and pleasure even more monetizable than they already were, so our best and brightest flock towards making fun and convenient junk, or extremely "useful" life\professional apps and devices that help you be a better you or whatever. Think of what would have happened if they kept working on Big Science... we'd have space Capitalism, sucking the universe dry to keep itself going, by now. The third world would probably be doing a lot better too, since it wouldn't be worth loving with them for resources when you can just crack an asteroid, moon or empty planet in half to get what you need.