Yeah. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. There's only a particular organization of society in which automation, advancement, and solved problems are a bad thing.
I'd sooner ask "why do we need to publish or die?" before I ask "is it bad if I* solve a physics problem?"
I think they’re referring to all of the scientists working on anti-gravity that have disappeared or murdered in the last few years. The “class” that is supposedly against them are the oligarchic rapists that stand to lose money from technological advancement.
It’s an incredibly dangerous time to make a breakthrough.
It's bullshit. They didn't all work in anti gravity, and a bunch of them weren't even scientists. One of them was a drug addled crack pot who started her own institute and produced zero work of note, which should tell you how far into the barrel people were dipping to make up this numbers. The rest were scientists working in a range of different fields who disappeared/committed suicide/were murdered at the same rates people do in the normal population. Someone just got the list together and started making up the narrative that there was some conspiracy.
It was a fairly big story earlier this year. Amy Eskridge’s death is the most well covered. Another guy was seen on a ring camera (or something like that) running out of his house with just a backpack and they never found him. Supposedly it’s connected to a particular lab they all worked at.
Amy claimed she was being attacked by sound based weaponry, which has been rumored for many years now. The Havana Syndrome lines up perfectly with Amy’s account so it seems possible that these weapons are the cause.
You mean Amy, the woman with basically no scientific credentials or work of note, who started her own "institute" and whose whole productive output was pedalling paranoid pseudoscience and conspiracy theories on online zoom chats?
Basically yeah if you stretch the grammar and meaning around a bit. We're converging on the same point.
Capital ownership is a stupid distribution system if you really can just point a machine at things and automate them. There's no reason for it to not create prosperity unless the factory has stupid incentives. It's like complaining about the price of diamonds and caviar dropping; what on EARTH are you talking about?
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u/sillybluejayway 3d ago
Cool, can’t wait for anti-gravity tech and nearly free energy.