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Genuine question: What do you find insulting about the title? While it's not presenting anything new, the article does cover a number of important talking poin
by DavidPiper 1y ago
Genuine question: What do you find insulting about the title?
While it's not presenting anything new, the article does cover a number of important talking points in an accessible way.
- zvmaz 1y ago> What do you find insulting about the title? The title itself. Without reading the article, I can sense the "we are living in a stupid age" arrogant trope characteristic of the "winning" social classes.
- DavidPiper 1y agoThat's an interesting assumption, thank you for clarifying. I do know a few people who walk through the world with the "everyone else is an idiot" mindset. They're a total pain in the ass and neither of them are particularly successful or particularly happy, irrespective of their (very different) notional social class. For my part, I look at a title like that and immediately think of the number of hours I've spent doomscrolling, trying to find value in cryptocurrencies, thinking about what impact AI has been having on education, trying to figure out where my life took its various difficult turns... And I see it more as a criticism of the systems we've built (primarily big tech, but also the industrial complex in general) to create a world where the answer might be yes.