• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    This is one of those comments that seems deep but when you spend 10 seconds thinking about it really isn’t.

    I live in the present, if I want to change who’s in charge of a nation it takes years of effort. I can’t just shortcut that with my magic time machine. Plus of course I have to live through the transition period so it’s not just about skipping the time it’s also about dealing with the consequences.

    If I step on an ant it may very well radically old to the future, but if I have to wait the 10 million years to find out then I’m probably not going to be able to tell.

    • menas@lemmy.wtf
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      9 days ago

      Yep, the issue is the I’ it need to organize as a wide collective to do such thing. And then, it do not need a lot of effort to do such thing. We could argue that in working for a collective, you may execute the order and not impact the line of that organization; it’s true, except in organization that are self-managed