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echelonyesterday at 11:03 PM1 replyview on HN

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happytoexplainyesterday at 11:18 PM

I'm not sure I will ever understand the presentation of "inevitable === un-criticizable" as some kind of patent truth. It's so obviously fallacious that I'm not sure what could even drive a human to write it, and yet there it is, over and over and over.

Lots of horrifying things are inevitable because they represent "progress" (where "progress" means "good for the market", even if it's bad for the idea of civilization), and we, as a society, come to adapt to them, not because they are good, but because they are.