Comment on It's been downhill since 2020

• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.

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  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then it doesn’t serve its purpose of solving the Fermi paradox.

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      • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

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