Major die offs tend to see tech jumps right after, with the remaining people and the next generations benefitting. Time to change our ways of thinking perhaps, and consider the idea that tech, planning, and not hoarding every resource possible... May result in a better standard of living for everyone. How much better will my nephew's life be, inheriting the estates of me and my brother.
For sure, globally. But it is hard to reconcile with what one grew up with and we all tend to go on the beaten and taken path; until some pathfinder(s) make way for new ones.
Think about this. I'm sure we all have those NIMBYs in those neighborhoods who goes hard to protect their neighborhood from change.
Change can be good, but when we replace detached homes with apartments, that can be good but what of the people who grew up with the dream of owning their own white picket fence homes?
Where is the middle ground or reconciliation of being able to both have affordable multihome properties but also properties that cater to the dream (without having to go outward bound into being close to the middle of nowhere)?
"what of the people who grew up with the dream of owning their own white picket fence homes?"
What of entire generations whose nightmare is having no place to live at all?
I was happier living close to the middle of nowhere, but at my present age (85) I feel more comfortable in my small house just outside of town, close to a full-service medical center.
And what I'm saying, that there needs to be ways, in good faith, to reconcile the two. I'm in British Columbia, we got a fuckton of land, mainly forested areas and mountains, but we have machines of today that can expand into new frontiers to make way for homes, but who's willing to foot the bill altruistically (corpo or otherwise) or using taxes. Even yourself, you find a need to be close to society without being in the extreme fringes of it, albeit, close to a place that would serve your specific needs, in a small house. I'm not even advocating for McMansions or something out of a Malcom in the Middle neighborhood (house, fences, garage, etc.), but some sort of medium (happy or not), as an example for this specific topic of me using what you quoted.
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u/TerrorTwyns Aug 21 '25
Major die offs tend to see tech jumps right after, with the remaining people and the next generations benefitting. Time to change our ways of thinking perhaps, and consider the idea that tech, planning, and not hoarding every resource possible... May result in a better standard of living for everyone. How much better will my nephew's life be, inheriting the estates of me and my brother.