I’ve just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)
Man, this isn’t a world I want to live in. I’m so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.
Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I’m only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser’s game…
What your experiencing is a kind of social decay due to people being squeeze more and more, and not just economically.
This isn’t specific to tech though, if there was no tech, they would just find other ways to make life harder.
This is just the journey we’ve been on since the Industrial Revolution where the market decides what our new environment is for the sake of profit.
The good news is that it’s a journey of ups and downs, so it could stop being dystopian soon.
Narrator voice: it wont
Such course reversal requires drastic policy changes at the highest level and there is zero indication that any of this is happening.
Watch in 4 years google won’t get broken up
Realpage is still price gouging renters after settlement
Dynamic grocery store prices based on your income.
Why have product of different quality when you can sell the same shit ar scale and adjust based on income?
I am being semi serious here too… Like from the owner perspective, why wouldnt they do this?
Who is going to stop them? Daddy sam?! Bitch please