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user-inactivated · 4353 days ago · link · · parent · post: 7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity
#2 is the only one of those that immediately strikes me as truly utopian. #1 is good for me, a lower middle class WASP living in the States, but not particularly good for the majority of the world's population. #3 is unrealistic and has inevitable overtones of religion and determinism. #4 is ultimately at least partially a failure -- an admission of defeat on planet Earth. #5 is awful. #6 is out if you subscribe to the "no pleasure without pain" PoV, the highest highs/lowest lows idea. And #7 is Buddhism.