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zmgsabst on Oct 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ivan Illich’s radical critique of modern certitude...

Living long enough to be killed by industrial society is luxury.

About 8-10% of all humans to ever live are alive right now — because the last two centuries of development have been fantastically successful.

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