There is a little bit of an assumption of the mad scientist here. Most scientists and engineers are very compassionate and caring people, even if many are excentric. We care about a thriving humanities department.
The psychopath cohort you're thinking of is the executive branch, or the people who made it to sales manager.
I mean yeah the internet has proliferated stupid. But I think everyone was always stupid, but just nowhere near power.
We need a meritocratic system that is also based on modern science and social psychology, and it needs to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive too...
If it's always been that way, how did things ever get better?
Nah, it's all about the money. It's literally just trolling with people lives to make money off of their inevitable fear
The only way to win, is if people who have invested money aren't afraid of losing it. Which of course almost nobody, because when gambling the house almost always wins. Which is to say an increasingly small minority get to win the lottery of a financially free life.
I'd prefer things end without violence... Which puts me in the most impossible timeline there is. It's so frustrating realizing they're all literally stupid or manipulated by stupid. Stupid being the promise of wealth, power, and fame ironically at all costs.
Oh yeah fair points. It's an ideal not anything near an immediate option by any stretch.
Only to be pardoned by the great leader of course.
Why couldn't your meme show like solar punk utopian imagery, and people living in beautiful harmony with nature.
Oh, that's why.
How is anyone free? You don't pick your genes or parents or where you're born and grow up, which friends you happen to make, or what opportunities come your way in life both for gain and for loss, trauma, abuse. How any of us grow into adulthood as fully functional compassionate human beings seems like a miracle, unless as OC said, you recognize that some people simply are just wired for evil, and need to be treated differently.
Wouldn't surprise me if some significant percentage of over 18s we're googling "how to vote?" as the poles were closing... I mean some were still asking a whole day after.
You give people too much credit. Most people don't spend any time researching and critically engaging with politics or even news, and you probably couldn't force them even if your tried to add compulsory politically neutral civics to the education system. Some people do well in math, but not in science. The same will be true in this class too.
Then there's propaganda fucking everything up even further. Most people are not immune to propaganda and misinformation, particularly when most of what they know comes from their friends, who are themselves very likely victims of misinformation.
Hi, my name is ynthrepic and I'm a workaholic.
I have one of those jobs where holidays just mean double the work when you get back. None of the work goes anywhere, and there's nobody else who can pick up the slack.
I actually love what I do, but...
I work in the public sector, and do heaps of unpaid overtime, to make life better for people who don't understand the only reason we don't do a better job is because the government keeps cutting our budgets, claiming it's because we don't do a better job with the money we were given the previous year.
We also do regular restructures which reduce morale and stoke fear, but the only people who lose their jobs are low level workers, or they just remove vacancies and claim savings on those, while moving middle managers sideways and not actually improving efficiency.
My job gets harder, I end up making more mistakes or have to cut corners to make shit happen. I complain I get in trouble. I have a kid.
I'm so fucking glad though I don't live or work in the US. Y'all are so fucking fucked.