so i saw that thread yesterday about 'longtermism' and then i just watched that kurzgesagt video about the end of humanity because of this thread and at the end it said the video was inspired by will mcaskill who is the longtermism guy. i was wondering why such a stupid take would get an article yesterday when i read the longtermism thing, like what a dumb idea and what a low hanging fruit idea, but now i get it. they're pushing this dude because he's normalizing kind of 'suffering through this shit' with the idea being that we'll all be okay with the state of the world if we adopt will's attitude and just know that even though we're getting obliterated by capitalism our great great great great great great great great great grandkids might be ok a little bit.