Who would I be in history?
| Era | Job | Morals | Prospect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millenial (fl. 2015) | Data scientist | Effective altruist | Transhumanist |
| Boomer (fl. 1975) | Computer programmer 1 | Consequentialist | Extropian |
| Victorian (fl. 1870) | Logician or Inventor or compiler of mathematical tables | Utilitarian | Positivist / Fabian / Nietzschean |
| Enlightenment (fl. 1800) | Pamphleteer / Power loom mechanic | Hutchesonian / Late Humean | Universal Reason |
| Early Modern (fl. 1650) | Law? Belletrist. | Dutch liberalism / Leveller / Quaker | Baconian optimism3 |
| Renaissance (fl. 1400) | Printer. Curioso. | Humanism | Republican Humanism. |
| Middle ages (fl. 1200) | "gramarien, retoriki, filofer, geometrer, logissian" 2 | Thomist by default | Millennialism by default |
| ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Middle kingdoms (fl. 800 CE) | Naiyyayika | Śāntideva Buddhist | Bodhicitta |
| ...</small> | ... | ... | ... |
| Warring States (fl. 400 BCE) | Shì-dà-fū official | Mohist | Sheng (聖) / Junzi (君子) perfectability |
- Maybe "expert system designer".
- More likely lay clergy. If we're going by birth rather than affinity, turnip-herd.
- The object of which is more or less our present day.