Well that’s silly. If I can manipulate everything except the human condition and technology, then I can create such an extreme surplus of resources that all the problems not directly related to technology or the configuration of society just disappear. If you take away tech advancement, that just leaves the configuration of society. Plus, I thought he was pretty clear at first that we were supposed to be looking for sociological solutions to the problem.
And you just agreed that any plan that we come up with will fade with time and become irrelevant. I still say that either we advance in some way, or considering the system on a societal level is not worth it.
Well that’s silly. If I can manipulate everything except the human condition and technology, then I can create such an extreme surplus of resources that all the problems not directly related to technology or the configuration of society just disappear. If you take away tech advancement, that just leaves the configuration of society. Plus, I thought he was pretty clear at first that we were supposed to be looking for sociological solutions to the problem.
And you just agreed that any plan that we come up with will fade with time and become irrelevant. I still say that either we advance in some way, or considering the system on a societal level is not worth it.