YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are Getting Burned Out

Re:YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are... by asdf21 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:51PM (#21837304)

>people have been convinced of much more evil and much dumber things by people good at talking.

Sure, but it usually follows this scenario..

People ignore issues, accumulate technical or monetary debt, ignore issues, accumulate debt, ignore issues, accumulate debt, lie cheat and scheme to keep ignoring issues... start to suffer because of historical laziness and avarice... someone comes along and says, "Hey, you can solve all these problem with violence, you know..", then evil shit happens.

People are not really persuaded "out" of being lazy or amoral, generally speaking. They're just given social "permission" to do bad things because of tough times.

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Re:YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are... by krageon on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:55AM (#21842887)

Morality being fundamentally subjective, I don't see amoral as necessarily a bad thing. You don't need morals to have a positive impact on society.

Lazy is not handy, but then again I'm not convinced that people can't be motivated out of this. Wars and other really unfriendly things cost a large amount of effort from many people. Laziness is seeing problems and doing absolutely nothing about them, not doing the wrong things. That's just being misguided.

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