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Being objective doesn't mean laser focusing on the negatives. For instance:

> Where you have just limited time to watch the movie you loved?

You know how many movies the average peasant watched in the 1800s? 0. The closest equivalent was live theatre and that was an expensive luxury. You'd also likely get see one or more of your children die to diseases that are trivially treatable or preventable today.

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these people are hopeless.

this is why it is important to give toys and distractions to the masses and meaningless grind so they can stay busy and happy.

while other people actually build the world for them.

Except the “builders” won’t have anyone to sell products to.

Markets require competition and customers.

Except, it’s actually you, who enjoys these toys and distractions.

There will always be people like you, who will accept every single shit, then call them “gift from builders”.

We are talking about handful amount of billionaire who manipulate masses, not Industrial Revolution and technological advancements.

The issues you enumerated were very well addressed in the socialist USSR.

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