@dosnostalgic Gave up a few paragraphs in.

@dosnostalgic aw, it is very cute. I think the author believes in what they wrote, though. It would be nice if the world with AGI and incredible tech advance would be a fairer better world, but I think the article doesn't do a good job trying to prove the point that there's more than a correlation between the fairer world and, indeed, an increased production/consumption.

@dosnostalgic any time I see substack I just keep scrolling past

@dosnostalgic Somebody's clearly not looking at the world around them

@dosnostalgic I mean... really, what can you expect from an Elon stan that writes shit such as...

> And it’s not just that some TeslaBot could work longer and more efficiently than its human counterpart.

also...

> Destructive climate change? Mega-machines to suck carbon out of the sky. Resource constraints? Asteroid mining. Population explosion? To quote an ad from the first film, “A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.” Then again, life on Earth should also be pretty good for the Earth-loving remainers.

and...

> economic history suggests a far less dystopian future. For example: The consumption habits of the rich — automobiles, air travel, computers, giant TVs, smartphones — eventually becomes the consumption habits of everyone else. It’s not like Elon Musk has access to a better COVID-19 vaccine than I do. Indeed, what Musk is doing at SpaceX is a good example of this phenomenon. Its innovations are dramatically reducing the cost of space launches such that there is now a realistic path for regular people going to and living in space, not just the super-rich. Economic history also suggests that even in a period of increased inequality, faster productivity growth boosts living standards.

It's not even funny. It's completely disgusrting tbh

@dosnostalgic This isn't completely without merit - the screen capture of the billboard is nice.

@dosnostalgic can't even make it past the blurb where apparently more tech = better life, which *looks at the world around*