If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?

Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by xerox13ster on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:28AM (#30733974)

Well, ideally people could choose to do whatever they liked to provide for society. Everyone would have a role to play. So those that like to farm (raised on a farm, to be proud of their work) would farm, those that want to commit their life to science could attempt to advance their field. Someone might find an invigorating pride in making sure wastewater treatment is running well, but they don't know how to get into the field and are stuck working a job they don't like for money, currently. Artists could create culture. As long as you are doing something to provide for society, society will provide for you.

There will be people that do not have favorite hobbies. There will be people with no ambition who benefit from being told what they can or should do to contribute. Those people, in order to have their needs met could choose to take on a Necessary Task, even if it isn't their favorite thing. Maybe they learn to love it and excel at it.

Don't want to do anything to contribute to society despite being physically and mentally able? No needs met. Meet them yourself, you magnificent lone wolf. Want your needs met but don't want to do Necessary Task that you hate? Find a purpose and pursue it.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by joering2 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:40PM (#30737408)

Couldn't have written it better myself. Thank YOU!

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by FastMonkey on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:50PM (#30737481)

I don't know how to break it to you, but the system you're looking for that does all the things you're saying is capitalism.

Have the talent and desire to be a heart surgeon? Go for it, and you'll be rewarded. Want to make life sized statues of the Beatles out of used printer cartridges? Eh, fine but maybe also get a day job.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by xerox13ster on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:37PM (#30737794)

Ah yea. Let me just pay to put myself through med school independently while I struggle to pay for food and housing.

Sorry but Capitalism is a broken system that is not meeting mine or million's of others needs, much less enabling us to pursue what we're actually passionate about. I at least know that I am passionate about building and supporting technology but I still struggle to pursue it professionally because I had the poor luck to be born without the resources to get a piece of paper that says I know how.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by JohnHaugeland on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:16AM (#30765666)

It's sort of weird how badly people have become unable to understand what the word capitalism actually means, these days

It seems like everyone just thinks it's how you describe the contemporary world

No, what they're describing isn't capitalism. Not even close

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