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Civilization is absolutely littered with counterexamples to the baldly false idea that social problems cant be solved by technology. The idea that they cannot was popularized by a reactionary advocating for mathusianism and he was talking about food production.

the problem is that technical solutions to a social problem are always going to fail, because they're an artificial obstacle. anyone caught using smart glasses to be a creep should be immediately fired into the sun without so much as a sniff of a second chance.

My counterpoint to this is always that verticality in buildings is not a social problem, and ramps and elevators are a technological solution to access for disables folks who can’t use stairs.

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