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so much of what we’ve called growth has come from blowing up what was once free and ordinary, then restoring a poor facsimile thereof for a price. we can talk to our families over zoom. what a novelty.
@interfluidity We can pay to play video games against complete strangers who are ruder than our friends. Progress at last
@interfluidity If scarcity is what makes the system go, scarcity goes brrrrrr
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With that said - my parents, siblings and their family are about 8600km away. Being able to talk with them whenever we want is not a small thing.
@jannem yes. but the fact they are 8600 km is likely an outcome of the world economic change has remade. first we are unfettered by geography, suddenly free to be anywhere. then we must be depend upon the things we expensively build and run to address the costs of our new choices. it’s not really growth, it’s remedy, more like covering a kind of deprecation.
@jannem @interfluidity Agreed.
So much of what we call growth has allowed me to set a higher bar on my interactions. I spend my life talking to people far away about stuff I truly care about, over small talk with people near by (extended family, neighbors) that I don't really share much with.
Things are getting worse, but it's still a better time to be an introvert than in most of history. More upside on offer for those willing to be thoughtful about their attention and tech choices.
@akkartik @jannem we might all in this conversation agree that the geographical freedom to move 1000s of kms is maybe worth the cost of the remedies, of imperfectly recovering what we’ve lost by it.
but what do we think of the freedom to build and move to car dependent suburbs? also worth its costs, both in reconstituting or compensating for what wld have been easy in dense settlements, and culture and conveniences that wld otherwise have emerged we now do without?