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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s more absurdist than cynical, but is cynical really a problem here?

We’re running 21st-century technology on a 13th-century economic operating system. It’s bound to produce some outlandishly antisocial results.

As a developer and tech enjoyer, there are some inventions in the past 30 years that I can’t imagine living without.

But there are also some horrific economic systems and social dynamics that have taken hold in large part due to inventions of the past 30 years. Some effects that are so bad I’d gladly hit the snooze button on some of the tech to delay it until we figure out the social/economic side first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cynics can never see the forest for the trees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You keep using that word…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Even a paranoid schizophrenic is right twice a day..