Reason 2: "Thought crime." Basically complaining about deplatforming. Then extends to saying some countries will jail you for "wrong-think".
Reason 3: Big Tech. Bemoaning that we use Google and Facebook and a few other services for most communication. Also Apple/Google/Etc pay.
Reason 4: Sheeple. Aka "most people are fine with it".
It's just all sort of alt-righty conspiracy-lite ranting.
We are tracked way too much. And companies are usually way to vulnerable to hacking. Again more of a mainstream issue that politicians look the other way on.
#3 youtube is great service in some respects but complete shit in others. The biggest issue is just getting rid of it off your phone. or blocking it off a roku.
And the point was there are some options but people don't use them.
Such a bummer that mentioning The Great Reset gets reflexively downvoted here.
It encompasses some of HN's favorite topics: ethics, futurism, finance, etc. and I'd really like to hear what people smarter than me have to think about it.
This deeply clicks with me and where I'm personally at in my growth. Technology is bullshit, and it is unsatisfying. The maximal emotional return I can get from creating industrial technology is the knowledge that I'm either dominating others or helping others be dominate. That's flatly garbage in comparison to the return I get from growing an herb on my counter and using it to make tea for my friends.
It's taken me quite some time to extricate my own personal wellbeing from the meatgrinder of western industrial life. As a matter of principle now, I can't really think deeply into how the wider world would ingest such a perspective, and whether or not it's ready for it. Such fruitless contemplations were the reasons for the depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues of my twenties.
This is happening in many spheres. Some call it spiritual awakening, others call it a mental health crisis, and yet more call it The Great Reset and seem to frame it in economic terms. Economy is pure human contrivance -- "logy" should be the root we use for the term we use to describe our relationship to the system we subsume, not "nomy".
All in all I agree -- this is by far the most interesting stuff and represents a distinct segment of growth amongst the intellectual body of western industrial humanity. I'll probably catch some neg for saying this, but all of this stuff is common sense amongst indigenous communities. They naturally have the correct context to automatically hold these perspectives.
Actually I think is pointless to give my perspective on things, not because I care about vapourware like HN karma or networking for "better employment", just because here we don't have deep critical discussions anymore (aside of safe zone tech vs tech).
So get along with the program and "be happy":)
Reason #1 We are tracked everywhere we go
Reason #2 Thoughts are crimes
Reason #3 Mega tech firms controll communication, information, and finances
Reason #4 Most people are fine with this
I really hope this is not our future.
The ancient Chinese curse has come true - we live in interesting times!
But for the people living on it (and all the process till reaching that point) it is just business as usual, life as it should be or like there is no better/realistic alternative. And leaving that dystopia means giving up on something they are not willing to leave.
You can't cure the symptoms without dealing with the disease, and we don't want to lose some of its core elements.
