We're in between the automation age and the cultivation stage (primarily parabolic advancement via Capitalism). As it turns out, Capitalism has pitfalls after all. Next, we find out how to automate where we can, decentralize finance, power (electricity), and sustenance and have expansive Art innovations. We're right in the middle of a big transition and there has been and will be a lot of hiccups along the way.
What we find out is how it is to live during a new Dark Age of ignorance, warfare, disease, poverty, starvation and brutality.
Have you tried playing Fallout? I think it'll help you get your doomer, dystopia fix. It's going to be the exact opposite. The catch is the cost of said advancement is growing pains, like we're experiencing right now. Those achievements in innovative expansion cannot come under the current regime. There will be more benevolence installed first, by one means or another.
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