Ideas
Work, status, culture, remote life, and the social questions underneath modern technology.
The longevity people think we are going to live a very long time. They might be wrong. But they might be right, and if they are, certain things follow that nobody seems to want to talk about. Female fertility has a biological clock. Male fertility does not. This asymmetry exists now, but stretch the lifespan to 175 and leave the fertility window where it is, and something strange happens.
Artists have always enjoyed calling businesspeople greedy. The suit is the villain. The creative is the hero. The suit wants money and the creative wants meaning, and these desires are understood to be fundamentally different in character, one craven and the other noble. This seems worth examining.
The remote work debate has calcified into tribal identity. Both sides have developed elaborate ideological frameworks to support their positions. Both sides are lying about what they actually believe.
The old world had clear roles: the mason, the monk. The capitalist, the clerk. The new world does not.