The first and second images are fantasy.

Even if you concede "Knights exist" and "Astronauts exist", the idea that you're going to be a knight much less a fucking astronaut relative to being a subsistence farmer or a digital desk jockey...

How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great

That's the other joke, though. Both these images are of people marching off to war. Presumably, these knights are going to the Holy Land to bake in the hot sun and shit themselves to death from cholera. Meanwhile, the interstellar colony ships are going to be rationing everything from calories to moles of oxygen.

The modern era guy doing a simple 9-5 desk job, getting more wealth in return in a week than an knight errant or an astronaut earns in a month, then going home to fuck his hot wife and play catch with his adorable kids has it pretty great by comparison.

Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.

Last image from 2nd line is cyberpunk, that's what a techno-fascist country is becoming. OP might be able to live it, he just have to move to the US (or wait if he already lives there)

And the fist one we’d still be the peasants not knights.

Something something Enrico fermi

And the first never existed in the way imagined.

Yeah, this is very much glorifying the past, and probably the future. Medieval peasants would dream of sitting in a warm cubicle, well fed, while scrolling lemmy, if they could imagine it. Space colonization is probably impossible too.

Still more leisure time then now.

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While being forced to travel literal lightyears away from everyone they ever knew, and potentially outliving everyone they care about due to relativity shenanigans.

Do we think that’s actually true, though? Life, all life, has a tendency to spread out when a niche is open in a new environment which it can fill, and there’s nothing shown there that isn’t technically within the bounds of humanity. Before capitalism, before humans were even Homo sapiens, we were already migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia. The drive to explore is, in my opinion, deeply human, and nothing says that the model of that exploration or expansion needs to be capitalistic. We wouldn’t have colonized the world in prehistory if it did.

That's the worst part

I technically disagree, most periods human history had "good times" and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.

Yeah, one should not take this random post too serious. 😅

Yeah Like who would kiss in full armor. She's not even kissing the guy she's just missing the metal.

We had EVE Online, which i never bothered with so my info here is 2nd hand, but in that game you could fly space ships and engage in a fantasy sci-fi MMO universe.

People were working in banks there. Full on 9-5 jobs in a game about space.