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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
With the dawn of the industrial revolution (i.e. less manual labor needed) and petroleum, you have an enormous spike in population that continues for some 120+ years now, and the rape of the planet began. At the rate the population is growing, they say in another 50 years that the western world will have to start eating bugs as there is not going to be enough land left to support the cattle and the traditional diet of today.
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The industrial revolution is bupkis compared to what is going on now with genetics, the internet, quantum computing and innovations on the visible horizon. Technology accelerates itself. The Stone Age to the Iron Age was nearly 2,000 years apart in human history. We make jumps from Industrialization to the Digital Age in hundreds of years and from Digital to Genome in decades. The pace of acceleration is staggering and it is only getting faster.
The idea that we need everyone working to make things is ridiculous. We need the best of us working and the rest of us to quietly stay out of the way, placated by a very easy subsistence and plenty of distractions.