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It's really hard to feel motivation to do anything in life when you basically know things are going to get far, far worse before they get better (hexbear.net)
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It's difficult to defeat the overwhelming feeling of "There is no future (Or at least not a good one), so what's the point?". I feel like even if I live to 100 we're not going to be anywhere close to a Star Trek utopia, but more smack dab in the middle of a Dark Age.

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[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Some sort of “future suffering and benefit” index being used in decision making should be a thing. Robinson has a version of it in his climate change book.