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mk  ·  2969 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robert J. Shiller: The Coming Anti-National Revolution

    if you set a prediction for a long enough set of time, then it is bound to come true.

That's not true. It's very easy to predict things that won't come to pass.

Nevertheless, you both seem to be saying a similar thing; technological advances will reduce poverty, and decrease barriers, which will lead to the diminished role of nations. That said, I agree with you that it won't come from any human desire to be more empathetic. Much more likely, technology and surplus will probably just enable it.

A good while ago, I wrote that this was already coming to pass for the very wealthy:

The empathy will be a while in coming.