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In a nutshell, money is the root of our evil. I bet there are some 19th century books about this.
by mycall 1y ago
In a nutshell, money is the root of our evil. I bet there are some 19th century books about this.
- paulddraper 1y agoMaybe even some 1st century ones…
- sph 1y agoIt’s easy to blame money, for it’s the most visible and measurable metric in a technologically driven culture. But other scholars have pointed to technology itself as being the issue, the relentless chase of data-driven efficiency, not money, which is just a secondary effect downstream. We went from being a tool-making species, to using tools to organize every aspect of our lives. I recommend Neil Postman’s Technopoly and, of course, good old Uncle Ted.
- Too 1y agoOn the other hand, not paying with money for quality content is breeding the even worse cancer of shallow ad-driven content. Where the only thing that matters now is enough of an illusion to generate a click, horizontally scaled with AI-slop to trawl coverage of every possible search term.
- Ekaros 1y agoSuccess of online advertising model seems to have destroyed a lot. It is now so bad that even if you pay you get the advertisements... So you end up with worst of the both worlds...