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On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:30:32 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>> <sniiip>
>>>> 
>>>> Humans in space make no sense.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Most of us don?t make that much down here either. ;)
>>> 
>>> Cheers 
>>> 
>>> Phil Hobbs 
>> 
>> 1000 years ago 80% of the population was farmers who barely grew
>> enough to survive. Clothes were so valuable that people were killed
>> for theirs. Most people were illiterate and lived in the dark when the
>> sun went down.
>> 
>> Progress has made us so efficient that probably 80% of the
>> developed-world population now has zero net productivity.
>
>Well, given that 100% of what gets counted as productivity is devoted to
>things that quickly pass away, it’s hard to get too worked up about that.  
>
>Materialism (of either the philosophical or the vernacular sort) ends in
>futility.(*)
>
>Cheers 
>
>Phil “ray of sunshine” Hobbs 
>
>(*) Fortunately, both kinds are mistaken. 

Well, people do like food, energy, shelter, and transportation.
Material things. I'd guess that 20% of our population makes that
stuff.

The rest, entertainment and fancy cooking and legal services and art
and music and most government and most education is kinda luxuries.

Medicine is a big biz and mostly worth it.

Electronic design is maybe half fluff these days, entertainment.