the priest produces mental comfort

Depends on the time and the society

we have replaced most of that with consoooooooooooooom

Also, most people who work in skyscrapers don't really produce anything

consoom the mental troubles away

I don’t think it’s incisive or original to say consumption has replaced religion

Unless you count moving money around and printing reports "production"

It competes for our attention

well

its winning pretty heavily

It’s clutter

Noise

oversaturating noise

A lot of other things are winning heavily not just consumption

Postmodernism

idk

postmodernism seems to open the consoom gate

Consumption can be good or bad

seems to go hand in hand

Would you rather travel to Saturn in a US, German, or Japanese built ship?

German

hmm

Probably yank at this point because we have an established aerospace industry

depends

US

No hesitation

Assuming all had ability

Germany doesn’t manufacture any aircraft and has no tradition of it

The expertise is American

well this would be spacecraft

It has no continuous tradition

It can be designed wherever

Built

Ameris stole all the expertise

I would 1000% want my ship built by Japanese

Then it doesn’t really matter does it

so now its theirs

If they’re all equally capable

yea America or japs for the win

Japs could probably build a nice ship given the right resources

>a diversity hire is in charge of designing the life support mechanism on your spacecraft