• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    No, I don’t think I’m being profound by saying an extremely common phrase akin to “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” I just don’t think today is all that different from the past, even with trillionaires.

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      5 hours ago

      Again: in the past they couldn’t, even if they tried, fuck up the whole biosphere of our planet as we are doing right now.

      So no, not same as always. The underlying principle yes, but the scale was physically not possible before.

      Except if you mean last 150 years, then agreed.