• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    Really? When was tge last time our leaders were like “We have a problem, let’s listen to what the actually smart people have to say and act on that”?

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          Yes because nobody was smart enough to horde all power and money and deny anybody else from changing things.

          Yes probably in a thousands years we still have rich assholes who control everything. But they hadn’t in idiocracy

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            Yes because nobody was smart enough to horde all power and money and deny anybody else from changing things.

            We don’t know enough of the world of Idiocracy to draw such conclusions. We don’t know who owns that giant store, the TV stations or the appartment buildings.

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      In the 80s scientists discovered that ozone layer has a growing hole caused by CFCs. All UN members signed the Montreal protocol designed to protect the ozone layer. It has been healing all this time and right now the problem is pretty much solved.

      Another good example is year 2000 problem. Computer scientists outlined the problem, got the financing for that and solved it with almost zero issues.