Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone
by wheelerof4te on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:10AM
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"There is a reason why we have built our technological societies. It goes well beyond the personal gratification we get from gadgets or fine foods. We do it because it offers security of being and the ability to make our world a better place."
"We" haven't built anything. A group of very powerful people planned this locked-down, dystopian world we currently live in and worked on achieving that plan.
You and I are simply living in the world they envisioned.
Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone
by FooBarBizBazz on Saturday September 02, 2023 @10:00PM
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It's been going on since at least Enclosure, and probably since the dawn of agriculture.
Of course, they are also very wrong. Opportunities to escape poverty are lost when you are only trying to fulfill your immediate needs, then there are the psychological ramifications of being vulnerable and in constant need for aid from others.
There is a reason why we have built our technological societies. It goes well beyond the personal gratification we get from gadgets or fine foods. We do it because it offers security of being and the ability to make our world a better place.