Are you optimistic about the future /g/?
>>107781219it is shit, but we do not have an alternative
Techwise I am, but otherwise, no I'm more pessimistic than ever
>>107781284>Techwise I am,finally someone who can appreciate the coming age of total surveillance
>>107781219Biblically I know it's gonna end well for me, but immediate future in the context of tech looks like ass.Not worried, though. Nobody has any capacity to spy on me, and so long as I can keep servicing my old tech, I'm at peace.
>>107781219You've got to be kidding – it's going to get even worse than it is now.Already at Microsoft most coders are pajeets, and the average smartphone owner doesn't know the internet beyond Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok (and instead of using their brains, they'll blindly trust AI).
nothe bread is poisoned and and the circus sucks
"Theoretisch Pessimist und praktisch Optimist sein, das Schlimme erwarten und doch das Gute versuchen."
no one is at this point.
>>107781219I want to kill myself
>>107781219NO
Where is my UBI, I hate working
>>107781219Yep. I think things will continue to get better. Windows might be going backwards right now but Google will set them straight
>>107781219the only thing I am waiting for is for the millenial kingdom of christ
>>107781841>I think things will continue to get better.Do you think things became better in the recent years?
>>107781821Keep waiting because that’s all you’ll ever do. UBI is not coming. This is not China. Even in China they don’t give you money instead they make you work and take it themselves.
>>107781893What happens in my apartment matters more than what happens elsewhere. In the past few years, things have gotten better around here. They will continue to improve at the rate things are going.
>>107781219time line is going to be reset very soon, as in the through this week or the next to roughly 10/9 years ago, trust the plan.
>>107782321But the only way you will retain your memories is if every day you focus just before you sleep into seeing yourself, from a first person pov, back in those days having retained memories from this timeline. Otherwise the chances are high you will only get dejavu
the best part of the future is that i'll be dead for most of it
Honestly, frankly and in a most sincere way possible: yes I am.I think the absolute negativity that most people live through these days is actually a symptom of the world meeting itself on a large scale due to the internet. We are fighting over narratives and such, this reflects in mad politics, family fights, and so on but this too will pass and we will find life precious in the future.I'm not saying there aren't any reasons to be sad and pessimistic about the future, I think there are plenty of reasons to be so. But it is my bet, against the odds, that humanity will get much better than ever before within this century. I think part of the pessimism comes from an overwhelming but engineered feeling that nothing can be done and we should all give up. I don't believe nor accept that fate and I work towards making the world a better place unironically.
>>107784083baste, have a you
>>107781219I am indifferentI don't experience any other state
>>107784083this, start buying fertilizer
>>107781219>the future is clear>it's going to fall apartThat's a very optimistic point of view.
>>107781219hope for the best but expect the worst. around humans never realax
>>107784083>is actually a symptom of the world meeting itself on a large scale due to the internetof-course. propaganda is failing on some fronts, people see the absolute state of things.>But it is my bet, against the odds, that humanity will get much better than ever before within this century.hard sell anon, it cannot. everything is moved by power and resources, nobody gets anything for free. when people's usefulness goes away it will become bleak. your utopia is the carrot on a stick so you work your ass off for merely nothing, shelter and food basically, barely. this cannot logically, ever change. it makes no sense, there's nothing that would sustain such a thing. the world doesn't work that way, it never did, no reason to realistically expect it ever will
>>107781219yes, the future is the only place I'm free
It won't be as bad as what doomers say, and it won't be as good as what the optimists say. Just somewhere in between.
>>107783949actually surprisingly time stops a few years after you dieyou won't know this but it's happening
>End of the world>2040The end of YOUR world. By then things will have changed for the worse and so much that everything you know will be unrecognizable.>>107781297>>107781331A nuclear winter doesn't sound so bad compared to the dystopian hellscape I'm imagining. At least then it'll all be over and death beats an eternity of "you vill own nothing and eat ze bugs" jewish type slavery.
>>107781219I try not to have expectations one way or another. Currently I am doing pretty well and my trajectory appears to show that things will only be getting even better. However life can throw curve balls at you in an instant. The only thing I can do is prepare myself now so that if things do get bad that I can mitigate the worse of it.
>>107785171>of-course. propaganda is failing on some fronts, people see the absolute state of things.No, I wouldn't put it that way, it's much more complex than that. Before the internet the issue was too few sources of information and how could they be manipulating us because of that. Now it's the opposite, too many sources, clickbaits, buzzwords and now AI fakes so on. People read the current status quo under completely different lights, they obviously disagree and can't understand how the other could develop such an opinion, while "the world" tells them otherwise (that is, their own little social media feeds). So much so that two people who are completely opposite in their political lingo may claim to be the "rebellious force against the big man" or whatever and not look past each other without any chance for a conversation. We are fed everyday to the absolute worst and most ragebait versions of mankind, tailored to trigger us individually. Afterall, tame opinions won't get views and agreeable circlejerky opinions are boring, only mutual anger tend to thrive.>everything is moved by power and resources,I totally agree. However I think that buried deep within the awful news that power always wins there is this hidden potential for good. This potential is currently being held back by a discourse that will soon grow old and die. I claim people will give up on giving up and will eventually work together towards something good for all mankind. I don't agree it never happened, in fact, I don't think civilization would have developped at all if we were just clubbing each other on the head all the time. However imperfect, violent and cruel history can be, there are moments of corrosion and moments of construction and my intuition tells me we are approaching a spirit of collaboration and optimism that I understand is hard to envision in these confusing times.
>>107781311My thoughts exactly. Nobody reading this will have technology being used in their favor.
>>107781219It's kiked.
>>107781219No. The elite are rapidly and openly pilfering the commons of collective human knowledge and creativity to build systems that eliminate their need to rely on plebs for labor. It's like the industrial revolution but orders of magnitude worse, and they're building a global surveillance state to thwart resistance against it.The brazenness is terrifying. They're cashing out on public trust because they know they won't need it anymore. And plebs are perfectly complacent with it because the tools that are being used to replace them are also great for generating slop/porn to distract them with.I'm so, so thankful I don't have kids. Living in this post-truth nightmare world is only going to get worse, and I can't imagine the guilt of being responsible for forcing someone else to do so.
>>107781219What future? It was 85F on Christmas here
>>107785882And niggered.
>>107781219the shittier everything becomes, the less i involve myself in it, the less i notice everything being shit because im not there in it, and the happier i am
>>107781219Yes.
being 40 is really weird, you get all this perspective on how things have been changingI know its not just me, because young people are seeing this as well but it was crazy to live through all this, see everything get steadily worse and now you just see the cracks everywhere. Something is coming.
>>107781219No because in the future I'm going to die and that can't be avoided. Why would I be optimistic about the future when my own death is inevitable?
Unironically yes. Historically things have always become better on average with time. Our perception is skewed because we only recently developed the technology to broadcast our whiny ungrateful faggotry on a global scale. For me personally, also yes. God has not yet let me down.
Only non-whites are afraid of the future.
>>107786946Wiggers say the darndest things
>>107786918>God has not yet let me down.And he never will. It's impossible for a non-existent entity to let anyone down.
>>107787201>not believingThat's a yikes from me
>>107787591Yeah, a big oof with a side of cringe.
Nope, 27 with no cushy tech job No womanBoomer parents that will sell out their own children on their way outNo homeList goes on really, I'm in a horrible depression cycle and probably gonna dome myself this year. My sister just bought a house and I feel even more like a black sheep of the family. Ugh.
>>107787591Not that anon, but god does not exist, get over it. I don't get people larping as religious in this day and age
>>107781219it's already really good and it's is getting better every day, tbqh I have no idea why so many people on the internets are upset about everything>inb4 a list of bullshit non-issues that can simply be ignored forever
i like it
>>107786391npbp
short term meh, long term yes
>>107781219this, things will get worse but you won't be able to perceive it until you reflect on each decade you grow olderthere won't be a happening, it'll just be a slow downward spiral you won't even feel until you wake up one day and realize your life is shit
>>107786770It's not sustainable. Everything gets worse and worse and worse and more expensive and shittierRevolution is gonna happen and it's gonna be bloody
>>107785227Based chuddha. Nothing ever happens.
>>107787627I swear the man lying down was breathing for a second
>>107787627That'd some low effort shit man. Steal better maymays
>>107787716Yeah he does, you get over it. Don't miss the boat anon
>>107790400It's not really my thing, I don't spend my days arguing about religion online, despite what that post might seem to imply. I do have a few of them saved, but they're in the single digits.
No. I think baby boomers, collectively, as a generation, decided the world should end by 2050, when they'll mostly all be gone. Their choices of selfishness, and not thinking of their children, and their children's children, are going to set us all back in a horrible way. You're better off trying to 900x your money on crypto, sports betting, or actual slot machines, so you can maybe pave your way to financial independence, than to aim for a steady job that risks getting devalued with the dollar, or replaced with AI, or a jeet your boomer boss can save $5 an hour taking in.
>>107790471this, so much this, fucking boomers shat in my pants today
It's gonna get much worse for the next 2-3 decades and then start recovering in the late parts of the century, though it depends a lot on what country we are talking about.In the case of the usa specifically it is almost the opposite. Things are going to stay around the same for a decade more, then briefly improve a bit and finally fall off a cliff towards the end of the century when the absolute god awful state of the education system starts majorly eroding away the competitiveness of the country.The USA primary and secondary educations have been slowly becoming africa-tier since the mid 2010s and historically a sharp decline in education quality is almost always followed by the country shitting the bed 30-40 years later.
No. If you look back at all human history, thousands and thousands of years, you can see that the majority of humans always had horrible lives. What makes you think that this is going to change?
