Comment by martin82
1 year ago
Modern society tries very hard to lay tracks for everyone all the way to final station: The old folks home.
In my opinion, there are TOO MANY tracks.
We have plastered the entire map with so many tracks, that experiencing true freedom has become virtually impossible.
We’re also too many people on Earth to continue living in a green field world. Fantasizing about freedom and the absence of tracks is a Western thing; I don’t think you can afford trial-and-error paths or separating from the cohort of applicants when you live in Singapore, Taiwan, or China. Kalzumeus had to show his bride’s mother his revenue sheet before asking her hand, because startup creator is second to homeless in the humiliation ranking.
> Kalzumeus had to show his bride’s mother his revenue sheet before asking her hand, because startup creator is second to homeless in the humiliation ranking.
That's how marrying into an elite family worked in most of the world for most human history. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Shakespear#Engagement -
> In 1911 Pound returned from America and in October formally approached Dorothy's father asking permission to marry her. Pound told Shakespear he had a guaranteed annual income of £200 in addition to earnings from writing and Dorothy's own income of £150 a year. Shakespear refused on the grounds of insufficient income believing Pound overstated his potential to earn money writing poetry. [...]
That's 20,306 pounds in 2025
Yep. The illusion of Freedom is sold as a product, however, and people make a lot of money with it.
What do you mean by that?
Any car ad where they’re tearing through the forest, with the kids in the back, with the ad finishing at some Grand Canyon overlook with a campfire.