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True advances in technology i.e. the ones which free us from slavery and stop us from risking our physical selves are pretty much suppressed by the promise of f
by meaty 14y ago
True advances in technology i.e. the ones which free us from slavery and stop us from risking our physical selves are pretty much suppressed by the promise of financial gain by using technology to leverage cash generation only. It's all about growth and profit, not improving quality of life or reducing risk.
It is, incidentally, the opposite reason to why I ended up writing software for a living. My objective was to ease the physical toil of people by automating the work that can be done by machine, freeing them to do more important and rewarding things.
Unfortunately, the increase in leisure time that this creates opens a big hole for consumption which is where these vultures swoop in and enslave us again via pay-per-breath DRM.
Stallman is a prophet of human nature more than technolgy.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> It's all about growth and profit, not improving quality of life or reducing risk. And sadly, it would seem to be the attitude of SV as well. From all the discussions and submissions here I get the impression that the concept of earning money by actually helping people and/or giving them real value is slowly getting forgotten, drowned by A/B tests, ad-revenue, eyeballs & stuff.
- meaty 14y agoA million times this. Real value and percieved value have diverged so much now that only percieved value matters.