r/BeAmazed • u/Mr_CaptainCringe • Mar 05 '25

History Are we truly living in the future?

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u/irishbikerjay Mar 05 '25

We flew a plane in 1903 and then 66 years later, we landed on the moon

We are most certainly living in the future. A future that is driven by greed and money.

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it's not cost efficient"

  • Kurt Vonnegut

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u/Solkone Mar 06 '25

Do you mean that we’ll let our kids suffer and die because is not cost efficient?

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u/irishbikerjay Mar 06 '25

I mean, we as a society could stop world hunger in roughly two to 3 months with a solid plan, if all the 1st world countries pulled together.

We as a society could pump serious money into renewable energy and AD plants to fuel global transport, electricity generation etc.

We as a society could build much more schools and housing to educate and home every single person in the world & give the appropriate attention to teachers and not have them scrape by.

We as a society can make untold strides in the medical field, practical implementation & research and make all treatments cost effective for our societies (ex insulin)

But in each instance we won't. Simply because this world is ran by pieces of paper & the greed behind making the most paper as possible.

Ultimately yes, we are killing the world and the chances our offspring has to live on planet earth to their fullest. And humans, we will cut our nose of to spite our face. We are a cancer and ironically if we don't keep AI in check.

It will most likely be our downfall amidst a myriad of other factors that will lead to our downfall.

Google Kurt the economist and LEARN for yourself

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u/Solkone Mar 06 '25

You took my comment (or I expressed myself) in the opposite direction. I was trying to emphasize the quote to the fact that we are actually killing our kids or their future because of money.

EDIT: In case it was not clear, I agree with the previous reply and this one :D

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u/FatassMcBlobakiss Mar 06 '25

Was talking to ChatGPT months ago about the flaws of humanity and how I can’t see us overcoming the massive hurdles we have in an ever shrinking time frame. Currently it always leans towards positivity and hope but agrees that theres some big problems right around the corner. I think we’re completely doomed tbh

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u/irishbikerjay Mar 06 '25

💩😳😭😂😂😭

Bro! Don't fucking talk woth it about that shit WTF! Use it for legal paperwork and writing SLA's and stupid shit!

Don't give it deep thought processes! Currently we control the narrative. The day we don't is the day we're fucked! And it's going to remember it's conversation with u/fatassmcbobakiss LOLOLOLOL

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u/1-800PederastyNow Mar 06 '25

World hunger isn't something that can just be solved. The problem isn't a lack of food, it's the logistics of getting food everywhere, even in regions in active conflict ruled by warlords. The rest of your examples are good.

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

You just proved him right. Warlords are there for the gain of riches no matter if it is minarals, labor, land or resurses.

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u/1-800PederastyNow Mar 08 '25

I took the "we" to mean the west.

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u/irishbikerjay Mar 06 '25

You need to open your eyes and do some research.

World hunger is an issue we created. Currently, we make more than enough food to feed the world. So it's already solved. Yes, logistics is an issue but only in fiscal terms. Again, to my main point. Won't save ourselves due to it being not cost effective.

Kinda a tangent, but not really. I remember as a young man, I went with my school to build housing in Kenya. We all saved up to bring the kids of the village to Mc donalds. Long story short, they hated it. They were more than happy with a few bags of grain and flour, though.

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u/Avoidable_Accident Mar 06 '25

The problem is the populations of those areas where food is hard to get has been artificially exploded because of aid to begin with, creating a lot of people in places where there should not have been so many people, and where historically there was not very many people.