Quote from: AZwarel on June 09, 2016, 11:38:20 PM

Quote from: Assmaster2000 on June 09, 2016, 11:23:31 PM

Quote from: AZwarel on June 09, 2016, 11:11:10 PM

It is way overdue for "the peasants" to learn some self reliance, and actually study and understand the things they use every f**ing day...Right?

Most people don't know shit and are perfectly happy and productive. They have no idea how their cellphone works, and only a vague idea how a regular phone works. They have no understanding of what's involved in a POTS network, how cable is laid under the sea, how comsats work, how comsats get to where they are, or what keeps them there, etc., etc. They haven't a clue, but it's OK, because they function well *in society*, because they are passable at what they do at work. Because since roughly the dawn of man, no one person is good at everything. But together, we have this whole civilization

While i agree, that this was kinda-sorta working up until now - actually, it didn't, that is why we have billionaire banksters, corrupt governments, frauds on every level of the financial/industrial/political system -, this can not be a way of life anymore. Sob-sob, evolution bitchez!

Those who stick with their "one trick pony" skills, one company for life, are dead weight in the information age. I am talking about large scale, like small individual laziness add up and brings the system down - just look at political leaders, most of them are reaaaly stupid.

I know this massive shift won't happen, i agree on that with you. That is why we might be the new super wealthy elite, because at every technological leap made before, the masses only start using/hoarding/studying it when the "leader says so", or the cost of staying out is visibly enormous, and it is already too late for them in 10 years in the future to enjoy the early innovator phase's benefits (like buying bitcoin below 50,000$

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It's not "kinda/sorta working," it's working *miraculously well*! The reason you see alternatives is because *you don't understand the mindboggling complexity, the insane level of interconnectedness and scope of ...stuff.* Look at some oldass tech, like Ford River Rouge Plant, 100 years ago, it's stupefying! And less than 20 years later, we had huge aluminum flying monstrosities with shit like this for motors:

And around the same time V2s and actual, fighting jets. Should I go on? Is this a "roll up your sleeves and be a lone wolf maverick" type of a deal?