Swimmer963 comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 02 August 2011 01:33:34PM 0 points [-]

As for working conditions, in terms of safety, cleanliness, physical hardship, etc., typical working conditions in developed countries are clearly much better than fifty years ago. What arguably makes work nowadays worse is the present distribution of status and the increasing severity of the class system, which is a very complex issue tied to all sorts of social change that have occurred in the meantime. But this topic is probably too ideologically sensitive on multiple counts to discuss productively on a forum like LW.

This sounds like such an interesting topic for discussion, though!

Comment author: Vladimir_M 02 August 2011 09:22:34PM 4 points [-]

This sounds like such an interesting topic for discussion, though!

Trouble is, it touches on just about every controversial and ideologically charged issue imaginable. (Which is not surprising, considering that it concerns the fundamental questions about how status is distributed in the whole society.)