> Now, I'm not a big believer in "there's nothing to be done", especially when it comes to companies and software, both of which are created and managed by

> Now, I'm not a big believer in "there's nothing to be done", especially when it comes to companies and software, both of which are created and managed by people. You're right of course. Axiomatically there is always "something to be done". But corporate technology brings out laziness, contempt for others, a lack of self-respect and a blindness to ethics. It seems we don't understand why yet. Despite a great start in social tech critique in the 1960s from people like Ellul, Postman and Mumford, it remains a frontier of psychology and computer science where almost nobody dares to tread. Maybe a sincere and sustained research programme would turn-up that most of the systems we build today are psychologically and socially harmful to us. Perhaps this mirrors the way it took us half a century to see how fossil fuels and unbounded growth were invisibly destroying our ecological foundations, only this time we are destroying the capital of social bonds, mutuality and care, long term planning and so much more. It is ironic then, that these engines of societal decay like Meta started out life being called "social networks".