• Teppichbrand@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    Innovation is a scam, it breeds endless bullshit we keep buying and talking about like 10 year olds with their latest gimmick.
    Look, they replaced this button with A TOUCHSCREEN!
    Look! This artficial face has PORES NOW!
    LOOK! This coffee machine costs 2000$ now and uses PROPRIATARY SUPEREXPENSIVE CAPSULES!!
    We need progress, which is harder to do because it takes a paradigm shift on an Individual and social level. It’s much less gadgety.

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      4 months ago

      Innovatin is good if it results in clean water, meds, housing, safe food and goods and services.

      It’s bad if it means: the most profit for useless shit that people only buy because advertisment made them believe they need it.

      Capitalism is a tool. Please let’s grow a pair and stop letting it decide how it will be used. It’s like pulling the trigger on an ak47 without holding it tight. Do we expect the weapon to know where to shot?

      Capitalism is a tool that wants to maximize its profits. Unfortunately it discovered that changing the politics and laws is an easy way to do that, even if it’s bad for the people.

      Capitalism is per definition not bound to ethics or moral. We need to set rules, even if big corporations made us to believe we shouldn’t.

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      We need progress, which is harder to do because it takes a paradigm shift on an Individual and social level.

      Sometimes it just takes a marginal improvement to the quality of the engineering. But these “what if manual labor but fascade of robots!” gimmicks aren’t improvements in engineering. They’re an effort to cut corners on quality in pursuit of a higher profit margin.

      Even setting aside you believe these aren’t just a line up of mechanical turks controlled from a sweetshop in the Philippines, their work product isn’t anything approaching good. Its just cheap.