Can we live in precedented times please?

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Can we live in precedented times please?

    Oh, there’s precedent for everything that’s happening right now…

    You’re just not going to like it.

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      1 day ago

      History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. Global production has never been this specialized and interdependent

      What does a company town look like with electronic access control and monitoring systems? What does a victory garden look like when the soil is polluted? What do you dress children in when plastic is the only common packaging?

      This is unprecedented… No one knows how it’ll shake out. But historically, things got very bad