Never Forgive Them
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In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Zitron’s posts are generally pretty good.

    He doesn’t really propose effective solutions, though, I don’t think. Like, yeah you can tell people that the internet sucks because some assholes made it that way. But if it wasn’t these assholes, it’d be some other assholes. And we’re not going to get most people to care about things.

    The problems are structural.

    The megacorps need to be broken up, at the very least.

    The ultra rich need to not exist anymore. Either because they were taxed down to size, or they met the guillotine.

    Without touching those parts of the problem, nothing’s going to get better.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, I don’t really think the prescribed response of talking more shit about tech founders is going to be very productive.

      I think a better way to think about it would in terms of, what is holding back the people who actually want to make technology that is good and helpful rather than crappy and exploitative?