maybe I’m misunderstanding this post but like… how?
I really thought by now the deep concern™ about the dark future™ was kind of global knowledge and zeitgeist, and after two years of COVID everyone was at least a
little painfully aware
like we’re faced with increasing and not especially precedented crises, wealth disparity blasting past the Jupiter’s rings, and the people who have an unconscionable amount of social and fiscal capital want to send their cars to Mars, start luxury space hotels, or make more fake layers of world to sell you fake shit in, all to steal your face and know your secrets so it can more effectively sell you more fake shit. None of it faces inwards when the inner crises are boiling over.
We’ve watched Facebook’s approach kill credibility and fuel misinformation. This has directly fueled actual genocides.
We’ve watched Musk throw shit into space for fun while employees literally die on his floors, overworked and underpaid, literally discouraged from going to hospitals because it’s a bad look!! let alone all the crypto chaos and how many of his “solutions” to global warming create different mining crises or don’t consider the public “real” or plan for actual urban planning that considers the needs of actual people (see The Boring Company)
We’ve watched Bezos make multiple additional fortunes off of heinous labor abuses day by day by day while ignoring the safety of workers enough to tell them to keep fucking working during tornadoes and die for his billions, all so he can put on his little cowboy hat and ride in a rocket
And then we watched all of that happen in a global pandemic where we got to see exactly how much the profits of wealthy people are worth — our lives. all of them. millions of lives. supported at all levels of government, us dying for their stupid money hoarding and labor abuse
Reagan’s chickens have come home to roost baybee
and these are the people who have built or bolstered what will become the metaverse, crypto / NFTs, and the VR landscape to come
computers were originally made to help people in the world and now we’re so far beyond that first step that we’re not solving real world problems anymore
we’re getting cyberserfed
so our entertainment can be harvested all while being sold even dumber shit than before, still dying for their money knowing no one in power will even try to keep us from dying as the earth tries to shrug us off for our crimes
let alone our own folly
and let alone opportunistic viruses and the opportunistic viruses in suitjackets that keep them circulating and growing because having ungodly sums of money is more important than not slaughtering the working class
so whatever degree of that
@Raccoon actually meant… no amount of concern for the future resonates with you?
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