Accepting for the sake of comity that the endpoint of those trends is indeed an Ending, are there historical events that you would similarly class as an Ending, or would this Ending be in a class by itself?
One could argue that China’s inward-turning, burn-the-boats collapse around 1500 was a result of similar wealth concentration? Though I don’t know the history in any detail.
I’d compare it to some of the hypothetical sociopolitical risk scenarios in Bostrom’s “Existential Risks”. Bostrom specifically mentions a “misguided world government” (driven by “a fundamentalist religious or ecological movement”) and a “repressive totalitarian global regime” (driven by “mistaken religious or ethical convictions”), but doesn’t mention scenarios driven by business or financial forces.
I’m sorry… this appears to be my evening for just not being able to communicate questions clearly. What I meant by “historical events” is events that actually have occurred in our real history, as distinct from counterfactuals.
Accepting for the sake of comity that the endpoint of those trends is indeed an Ending, are there historical events that you would similarly class as an Ending, or would this Ending be in a class by itself?
One could argue that China’s inward-turning, burn-the-boats collapse around 1500 was a result of similar wealth concentration? Though I don’t know the history in any detail.
I’d compare it to some of the hypothetical sociopolitical risk scenarios in Bostrom’s “Existential Risks”. Bostrom specifically mentions a “misguided world government” (driven by “a fundamentalist religious or ecological movement”) and a “repressive totalitarian global regime” (driven by “mistaken religious or ethical convictions”), but doesn’t mention scenarios driven by business or financial forces.
I’m sorry… this appears to be my evening for just not being able to communicate questions clearly. What I meant by “historical events” is events that actually have occurred in our real history, as distinct from counterfactuals.
Oh. Well, no.