This is one of the most negative articles I've ever read, about something that has produced a truly remarkable standard of living for an ever-growing number of people.
Remember when people were proud of making things, and understood that nothing would ever be perfect?
Meanwhile, we've chewed through trillions of tons of resources, expropriated worker effort for extravagant gain of a minority, likely instigated collapse of stable environmental conditions for later generations.
All for what, really? iPhones that help us manage the danglies of the problem: financial economic growth or bust? Did an iPhone cure a disease? Did it literally grow food or invent something new?
No, people do those things. And we got them focused on inventing apps inside a walled garden instead of working on the other things.
We haven't even gotten basic services accessible to everyone. Look at the PA special election: Healthcare was the reason people switched their vote from R to D.
But it sure is great Google/Apple/Facebook and the ones that get through their purity competitions are having a great go of it.
There is some serious deflection going on that comment.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 17.5 ms ] threadRemember when people were proud of making things, and understood that nothing would ever be perfect?
Meanwhile, we've chewed through trillions of tons of resources, expropriated worker effort for extravagant gain of a minority, likely instigated collapse of stable environmental conditions for later generations.
All for what, really? iPhones that help us manage the danglies of the problem: financial economic growth or bust? Did an iPhone cure a disease? Did it literally grow food or invent something new?
No, people do those things. And we got them focused on inventing apps inside a walled garden instead of working on the other things.
We haven't even gotten basic services accessible to everyone. Look at the PA special election: Healthcare was the reason people switched their vote from R to D.
But it sure is great Google/Apple/Facebook and the ones that get through their purity competitions are having a great go of it.
There is some serious deflection going on that comment.