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This article is what happens when you start out with an assumption that things are getting ever better and then try to fit actual events into that frame. Progr
by kilpikaarna 2y ago
This article is what happens when you start out with an assumption that things are getting ever better and then try to fit actual events into that frame.
Progress is a law of nature and we are building the communist workers' paradise so gulags are good, actually!
"the wheel of progress", "civilizational tech tree", give me break and please consider the idea that sometimes things actually do get worse.
- n4r9 2y agoAgreed. The weird thing is that the author explicitly concedes that things are worse now than they were 10 or 20 years ago. They concede that there's no easy way for them to access their own music that they bought. They concede that the internet is less fun; a walled, attention-stealing garden. They concede that corporations are intentionally trying to leasify their products. But they try to squeeze it into their worldview by framing it as a temporary downturn before some great new innovation comes along.