lifeisjustreplication on Nostr: > We seem to be approaching the point where a rebalancing of extreme asymmetries is ...

> We seem to be approaching the point where a rebalancing of extreme asymmetries is at hand, and so we have to choose between policy changes and social upheaval.

🤔 Social upheaval? I don't see it happening anytime soon. At least not as a phenomenon of social class, transcending the political spectrum. Why? Because unlinke with examples of upheaval in history, one very powerful if not the fundamental motivation for it - because it is so visceral - mostly isn't there in the developed world: hunger. (Or am I missing something? Yes food banks are becoming ever more prevalent, but we're far away from mass starvation.)

That, combined with all the contemporary circuses (bread and circuses) like digital games and fake social engagement possibilityies that have a dulling effect.
Almost as Aldous Huxley described in Brave New World.