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Internet is amazing, it is the best invention of humanity, and each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows
by IvanK_net 9mo ago
Internet is amazing, it is the best invention of humanity, and each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows that it is getting more and more useful for everyone.
Those who enjoy saying "I do not learn enough, I do not improve myself enough, I do not work hard enough" (but you say "the humanity" instead of "I"), that is just your own fault. Let people use the internet the way they want to use it.
- palata 9mo ago> each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows that it is getting more and more useful for everyone. How in the world does that sound like a reasonable conclusion?
- privacy2 9mo agoEach year, I spend more time in my car during my commute (on average) than a year before, which shows that being stuck in traffic is getting more and more useful to me.
- IvanK_net 9mo agoYou chose to do it, so it means it was better to you than all other choices. Why would you still do it otherwise? If your goal is to suffer as much as possible, it does not matter. You are still making choices that lead you to your goal as fast as possible.
- xboxnolifes 9mo agoIt doesnt mean that it getting more and more useful though. The alternatives could be getting worse and worse. Or there just aren't alternatives. Maybe this is just a disagreement of what it means for something to "become more useful"? As an example, If I need a bank account and every bank goes online only and shutters their physical locations, that is not online banking becoming more useful to me. I was perfectly happy going to the physical location, but i am now spending more time doing banking on the internet.
- roughly 9mo agoI chose to give that nice man my wallet instead of taking a bullet, but that doesn’t actually reveal as much about my preferences as you seem to think it does.
- dredmorbius 9mo agoThis is absolute gold, thank you.
- signatoremo 9mo agoNo, you chose to be able to go back to your loved ones in one piece. That very much reveals your preferences. Do you think someone who was in depression, who had a terminal illness might do differently?
- IvanK_net 9mo agoYou choose to spend your time on a place A instead of the place B, it means that the place A is better than the place B. Why else would you do it, if B was better? It is a simple logic.
- econ 9mo agoOr that B got worse.
- akoboldfrying 9mo agoYes, but that still means A is a better choice than B to a greater extent than it was before. A lot of these arguments are really arguments about an unstated "baseline" that we feel we deserve.
- mightybyte 9mo agoIt also could happen because tech companies have optimized their products to maximize the amount of time that people spend on them, often in ways that directly result in a worse user experience (by showing ads instead of the most relevant search results, for example).
- IvanK_net 9mo agoIt makes no sense what you say. If the experience with A was really worse than with B, people would stay with B.
- cgriswald 9mo agoThe original poster said “more useful”, not “better”, so you’re already arguing something different than what was said. I might spend more time with something less useful because its time efficiency is one of the things that makes it less useful now. Regarding your argument of “better” you seem to be arguing by definition. Edit: I now realize you are the original poster who said “more useful”, so why did you change it?
- FeteCommuniste 9mo agoEach year the gambler spends more time, money, and energy on slot machines. Obviously his gambling habit is getting more and more useful to him. /s
- IvanK_net 9mo agoWhen somebody talks like this, ready to ban social networks, videogames, pornography, the whole internet, and pretty much everything that billinons of people enjoy, by comparing it to gambling, it scares me quite a lot.
- FeteCommuniste 9mo agoNah, no bans. People should be free to spend their money and time as they please, but let's not pretend that 2000 calories of M&Ms a day is a healthy diet, either.
- signatoremo 9mo agoYour comparison may be apt for Tiktok. The OP talks about the Internet. Researching, learning, communicating, paying, shopping, entertaining, via the Internet, have steadily increased.
- palata 9mo agoPeople spend (on average) the vast majority of their time on the stupid addictive stuff, that's documented.
- Vegenoid 9mo agoYear over year, we eat more junk food and get more overweight than the previous year. This demonstrates that junk food and fat are becoming increasingly useful and beneficial.
- jimbokun 9mo ago> and each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows that it is getting more and more useful for everyone. In the same way heroin proves itself more useful for everyone year after year.
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