RSS(MaCready tosses a stick of dynamite) Yeah f you too!
Sorry, being a John Carpenter fan I couldn’t resist.
But seriously, I think you’re lamenting the tragedy of our inability to return to the Garden of Eden. There are realities of technological innovation and monetary systems that we have to deal with, however unpleasant. So far as persuasion goes you might as well be a fundamentalist Christian, Muslim, Orthodox Jew, or whatever, opining about how wonderful the world be if only everyone converted and recognized the one true righteous God. Now, one thing about your series of complaints I do agree with, whether it’s only implicit in your grievances, is that we all need to consider much more carefully potential consequences of AI, mRNA, surveillance, and so forth (I’d add climate were it not for all the existing hysteria). I do wonder if Frank Herbert’s world of “Dune” had it right to ban artificial intelligence under threat of death.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind. Is that a superior philosophy to help ensure the survival of the human race? I don’t know, but I do think it warrants consideration. Are humans evolving with technology at all? Or are we merely feeding a dopamine addiction, allowing ourselves to live until 95 instead of dying at 87, etc? Is our technology worth it? Some of it maybe?
You cannot persuade an upper-middle class or upper-class Real American that less immigration is going to make real estate and stock market prices rise faster than more immigration, and that’s what they care about, getting theirs. That’s the American Dream.
I understand you better now, and I don’t disagree.
What would they be against cheaper cleaners, carers, gardeners, cooks, waiters? Why would they not want higher rents and real estate prices thanks to a massive influx of new tenants and buyers?
Why? Because the continual dilution of the racial/cultural demographics as it existed around 1965 led to a weaker, culturally confused society at war with itself over identity politics. We already had and continue to have the massive problem of income inequality and government overreach. Why add another significant problem to the mix? I don’t remember being asked to vote on whether I’d prefer to pay twice as much for an orange in a more homogeneous society or if I preferred the “diversity is our strength” leftist model.