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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooh, I could give you a while list of things, but I am not one to set fires intentionally.

I will say that a lot of people have been trained to use their feelings as a moral compass before letting logic and reason do the talking. This includes "treating the symptoms" of a problem and not digging down to the root cause. A lot of root causes are byproducts of the industrializaton of the modern era, but it's an unforgiveable sin to produce research that makes a company look bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the single greatest comment I have ever seen on this platform. I’m not being hyperbolic. It took me years to discover what you just wrote. It’s a never ending journey to the root causes, but it’s well worth it. I find myself constantly asking: “Why do we do things like this?” The usual answer involves money and traditions. People never contemplate the inefficiency of our society. Please set more fires intentionally.( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

After being poor for some time, I got a whole degree in economics to understand how we justify paying employees absolute trash.

I worked hard at a restaurant for 5 straight years. I was paid $8 or so, minimum wage at the time. And then they upgraded and moved. I got to move with them! And I got a raise to $11! Then they cut my hours in half.

Fuckin' assholes. I had to get another job.

In any case, money is the motivation for so many problems. Honestly, it's disheartening.