r/Pessimism, u/Robotoro23
This is how people today justify suffering of people when industrial revolution began, “it was worth it because we now have a fridge, medicine and technology.
This is how now people are justifying suffering of people today, “it’s worth it because we will reduce even more suffering with additional technology
The problem with that line of thought is that it presupposes an end to our misery, that technology will bring salvation and create Utopia.
What those same people don’t get is that suffering is fundamentally ontological to humans and everything around us.
Hypothetically even if we managed to cure every disease, every mental health ’problem’, everything being automated, upload our consciousness to machines etc…
After all of that, the questions people very like to ignore is this: what after that?
A sterilized society devoid of pain will only bring boredom and boredom eventually turns into suffering and we are back to square one: how to reach salvation of existence?