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		lupusreal 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life... That's nice, but you're still going to die. We all will, and the world is better off for it because progress happens one funeral at a time.

ben_w 7 months ago [–]

That mistakes academic personal power for all power:

If funerals were in general the only way progress happened, every genocide would cause scientific/technological/economic revolutions.

Recessions are sufficient to clear bad leadership in the private sector; elections in democratic governments.

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