Tech used to be a promise: we are building the better, faster, cheaper future right now. Tech was delivering novel new experiences, new networks, new entertain

Tech used to be a promise: we are building the better, faster, cheaper future right now. Tech was delivering novel new experiences, new networks, new entertainment, and enabling a way to live your life that was completely different than anything in human history that came before it. People loved tech because it fulfilled its promises. Now? Tech is intrusive, deceptive, and outright predatory. Tech is the constant harassment to sign up for a newsletter, that you're running out of your free articles. Tech is convenience fees, cleaning fees, venue fees, existence fees. Tech is my television interface changing every few months. Tech is not having a way to opt-out. Tech is having less control over the objects I own now compared to what I bought ten years ago. Tech is paying subscription fees for everything now. Tech is destroying mass public transportation so they can sell me an idiotic car tunnel. Tech is reducing my existence to a set of data points to be milked for revenue. Tech is spending $$$ on electronics only to have them bricked remotely when the company goes under. Tech is filling up my trash can because I'm blocked from fixing anything myself. Tech is the new paywall on the old website that built it's value on open access and user contributions. Tech is the faceless extractive hostility that is relentlessly turning everything to absolute fucking garbage. People hate tech because tech doesn't give a single fuck about people.