Age of Envy (Score 1)

Some people just can't enjoy progress in action.

This guy makes a lot of observations but provides very little, if any, proof of concept. Does he really want us to believe that the progression and advancement of mans mind is to be stagnate in order to keep the "natural checks and balances of scarcity"? He asks us to consider "What are the long term consequences if this advance reduces costs to zero, or increases access so that everyone with a desire to do so, can use the technology?" I believe this is a trick question, because the cost will never be zero, not while man continues to cling to moral values. That said the answer lies in his question: Advancement. We work out the kinks with time as we have throughout history.

It seems that his "theory" is more based on ether or the abundance of food he apparently has no problem with consuming, than reality. It also seems contradictory or incredibly incomplete. He quotes the life of the human family as "50,000-plus years", which eludes to theories of evolution and the big bang. If he believes in evolution, then isn't that what his observation would serve to prove, evolution in progress.