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If that was true, we'd still be riding around horse buggies, instead of the imperfect-but-better cars. Because we live in an imperfect world populated by imperf

If that was true, we'd still be riding around horse buggies, instead of the imperfect-but-better cars. Because we live in an imperfect world populated by imperfect human beings, every solution is a half-baked solution, and misery will only be reduced at the margins, one small step at a time. There's no cabal of greedy capitalists who are purposely holding us back in order to profit off of more misery. Edit: I take that back: there is a group of greedy people who do actually benefit from misery, and that would be our dear politicians ;-)

Nextgrid 4y ago
> There's no cabal of greedy capitalists who are purposely holding us back in order to profit off of more misery. The advertising industry's continued existence and expansion seems to disprove this. There's absolutely no reason most tech products out there should intentionally waste user's time by showing them ads for things to buy when they're doing unrelated tasks, and yet they can and do so because a minority can benefit.