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Re:Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away by saulpw on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:44PM (#37862945)
Shame is not a viable mechanism at scale (particularly across cultures). Particularly with the rise of extreme partisanship, shame lobbed at one group will be turned into an identity and used provactively (see e.g. "rolling coal").
Re:Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away by kalupa on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:19PM (#37863909)
you may be seeing a "guilt based society" trying to use a "shame based society" mores, here. we don't live in a shame based society, so it fails to do it's work pretty quickly ...

but then there's the rise in popularity of "just not giving a shit at all" and morality left the building long, long ago ...

Re:Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away by seanp2k2 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:38PM (#37864585)