In contrast, our societies today instead try to maximize consumption, which devalues our people as they get softer, flabbier and, even, fail to reproduce.
This does not mean consumption as measured by economists, in dollars, although there is substantial overlap. It means consumption in the sense of satisfaction of individual human appetites, eventually to the detriment of the whole human being and his or her society.
The most unimaginably challenging megaprojects are not even interplanetary, but interstellar. A civilization genuinely committed to undertaking such projects would finally generate the political capital necessary to streamline the economy, eliminate rent-seeking, and solve a million other minor and major problems, annoyances, and inefficiencies. It would also finally generate demand for human beings and therefore offer the possibility of solving the fertility crisis.
Oh my fucking god
We still have that! We never lost that! People still want kids! And they want them because they want kids not some lofty interstellar jerk off session.
Author telling on themselves here. Just because nobody wants to be around them and their shitty idea doesn’t mean society is collapsing.
Just Jesus fucking christ what a stupid fucking thing to think up let alone share
Fucking go call your mother and just apologize. You don’t have to explain why. But we both know it’s the right course of action.