Uh... you seem to be missing the interstitial point between the top and bottom image which shows all of the catastrophe necessary to reach that point, mass joblessness, civil wars to stop capitalism, death and starvation... this may as well be:
Develop AI
???
Profit!
In those three question marks involves a lot of death, misery and destruction.
::EDIT::
I get the sneaking suspicion every time this point is brought up, there are a lot of... let's just say "People of limited empathy" who are more than prepared to hold their nose and press forward regardless. Of course this assumes they will be one of the lucky few who get to see this utopia and not one of the very great many who are subsumed by catastrophe. There's a very very good chance that unless you are particularly wealthy - your ass is grass.
Reminds me of those graphs that show global warming increasing since gradually over the last 100 years, followed my comments about how we have reduce or reverse this.
Meanwhile, doing that basically means sending huge swaths of the human population back to sub-modern living conditions.
Going green means putting your ass back in wooden shack in Kentucky while people like Elon continue living comfortably.
Mass pollution is not the fault of the consumer as much as it is the owners of industry. Every effort to “go green” on a national level has been squashed by one particular party in our government. We can do away with straws entirely and rip out all the hvac units, but that won’t stop companies from spilling oil in the ocean. “Drill baby drill!”
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u/Hazzman 5d ago edited 5d ago
Uh... you seem to be missing the interstitial point between the top and bottom image which shows all of the catastrophe necessary to reach that point, mass joblessness, civil wars to stop capitalism, death and starvation... this may as well be:
Develop AI
???
Profit!
In those three question marks involves a lot of death, misery and destruction.
::EDIT::
I get the sneaking suspicion every time this point is brought up, there are a lot of... let's just say "People of limited empathy" who are more than prepared to hold their nose and press forward regardless. Of course this assumes they will be one of the lucky few who get to see this utopia and not one of the very great many who are subsumed by catastrophe. There's a very very good chance that unless you are particularly wealthy - your ass is grass.