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[hawver]

Poll Hawver's consumer confidence poll

Comments

[kittles]

As I was taking this poll I was thinking "my life will be better - but because I always make it better pretty consistently." And not because of some politician. My life will be better whether or not the president sucks.

In a way that's kinda sad, but in another way, it's awesome. if only more people believed they had that much power over their own lives.

[hawver]

I think that is a great way of looking at things, but lately I've been pondering how much control the politicians have over our quality of life. I think most of us are going to suffer through a standard of living readjustment because of politicians flushing our money and currency down the drain to enrich themselves.

[boffo]

Technological innovation has improved our lives faster than politicians have degraded our lives in most of the world for the last 500 years. (Yes, there are some obvious exceptions in certain locations at certain times, but these are blips in a larger overall trend.) I don't see any reason to expect that to change.

[sweetbaboo]

If they're our politicians, why don't we do something about it?

And if they're their politicians, fuck them, then.

[perich]

What grandchildren?

[hawver]

As soon as I posted this I realized that I should have put some disclaimers around "grandchildren".

[perich]

Well, you know the Robot Wars of 2029 will sterilize all our children, so it's kind of a moot point.

[hawver]

I've seen the fields where human beings are not born, they are grown.

[boffo]

I only answered No on the last one because I won't have any grandchildren. I believe my niece's children will ride in an airplane, unless some better technology has replaced airplanes by that point. Although I guess my niece will be having children in roughly 30 years, so I doubt that would happen by then. But for her grandchildren, who knows?

[halo]

ok, so why do you ask?

[hawver]

Because this is stuff I think about every day. Well this and b00bies.

[flynngrrl]

Are you envisioning a Mad Max-like future? My grandchildren will not be strutting around in animal skins saying, "Walker, Walker," thank you very much. Or if they do, they won't be doing it with Australian accents.

[hawver]

A mad max future is one of the futures I envision, but probably not the most likely one. I do however see a very energy poor future, where most of the things we take for granted today (air travel being a obvious example) either simply won't exist, or will be far out of the reach of 99.9% of the population.