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[–] -3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

This is silly, off the top of my head:

Electric lighting, Air conditioning, refrigeration, vacuums, washers/dryers, modern toilets + sewage systems, grocery stores, GPS guided + Air-conditioned combine harvesters.

This very moment I have my Instapot cooking, the dishwasher washing, the washer washing, the dryer drying, as I lie in bed (which I bought instead of made) cooled by a fan. I just took a drink from a water bottle I didnt have to whittle by hand. Life is, in this beautiful instant, pretty good.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Great, I’ll let the people in the line outside the food bank know that things are actually pretty sweet right now.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    While you're doing that, ask them if the food bank line is preferable to literal famine because the crop their family spent 14 houes a day to dig by hand failed.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Thanks bro I just told them all that their life is way better than a 16th century peasant. They were stoked. Then four of them OD'd on fentanyl and fucking died.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I answered the topic "has technology ever improved working hours, conditions, leisure time?" with examples of how it objectively has.

    Can you explain your reasoning otherwise; or are we just here to have an doomer circlejerk about the existence of poverty instead?

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  • [+] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    You're missing my point entirely. I'm saying the world is a much better place because of technology, and OP is a fool for implying it hasn't improved anyone's lives.

    Here's infant mortality, another "happy" chart showing how technology vastly improves human lives! It's not all doom and gloom, life isn't as bad as the chronically online make out if you look at how bad it was!

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