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jhrmnnyesterday at 8:16 PM1 replyview on HN

This can’t be sustainable, there must be a limit in human biology as to how complex jobs we can handle. More and more people will fall under that threshold.


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mbgerringtoday at 12:36 PM

I think there’s probably a limit to given technologies of social organization, but not biology.

I think most people have more potential than they’re ever allowed to reach, and that capitalism is indifferent to the social structures it destroys. I don’t think neoliberal capitalism was the end of history, or that returning to feudalism is the answer, but we’re probably going to have to do something different to avoid social collapse in my lifetime.