The modern economy is built on addiction (2021)

Re:The modern economy is built on addiction (2021) by sam_letter on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:39PM (#30581045)

There is some truths to this but there is way more to the modern economy than addiction. What about electric cars, rockets, crypto, cloud, AI...?

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Re:The modern economy is built on addiction (2021) by siskiyou on Sunday March 06, 2022 @04:59PM (#30581705)

If by "crypto" you mean cryptocurrency, it's an often addictive form of gambling, like many modern types of investing can be.

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Re:The modern economy is built on addiction (2021) by cweill on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:16PM (#30583853)

Ever done machine learning? Chasing that ever improving accuracy is a high like no other. It's random variable reward. Ask anyone who does ML for a living.

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Re:The modern economy is built on addiction (2021) by zoover2020 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @04:54PM (#30581662)

All highly addictive. Try an EV, trust me.

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