Can’t stop thinking about this in the context of tech. Of course technological advances are a good thing, but isn’t there a point where progress for the sake of progress stifles any productive use? Who exactly is benefiting here? A decade or so ago, I was still able to communicate how I’m communicating now, but things have gotten substantially worse.
I’m looking at the state of the internet and can’t help but look at how every algorithmic breakthrough has just been used to gather data for marketing purposes or targeted advertisements. Lmao and I don’t even know how you can consider that progress to be honest.
The wildest part about this is that you don’t even need to be a leftist to agree. Everyone hates targeted ads and marketing bullshit besides people who make money in marketing and advertisement.
What a depressing piece. All wonderful solutions, but most of them require westerners to be self-critical and address how they get their treats. Fuck
I guess I didn’t even realize how my question so directly relates to capitalism- which further proves the fact that people who tout “ capitalism is everything I don’t like” should be treated to forced re-education 🥰
Also, a lot of things just started clicking for me and my pseudo-Marxist brain. Of course westerners don’t care about climate change because it is directly tied to the exploitation on the other side of the world that gives them their treats. The people it’s going to affect first live in the global south and most don’t even know what goes on there so they can have some sense of comfort.