mycodesucks

You don't have to imagine.

It already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta

Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.

The definition of financial happiness is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend.

While some poor jerk is spending the next 30 years paying 30% of their income on a mortgage, you've got everything you need at a 10th the cost and can afford to weather whatever comes at you.

For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.

For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube's primary audience to stop watching.

"Futurism" hits like a religious word now that you need a blind faith that's contrary to logic to believe there's a future for us at all.

We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species' DNA.

They're the same people who go "I'm fine with the raising prices. It's a valuable service to me and I make lots of money, so I'm fine with bending over for their shareholders."

It's capitalism signaling for people with more money than values and ABSOLUTELY no sense of pattern recognition or consequences.

They'll get offered ad revenue sharing and it'll be too good to pass up.

They certainly have no ideological problem with following suit.

Let's jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone's data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

Apparently we're incapable of learning this lesson.

Don't worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it'll stop getting worse and everything will be great.

Look, the individual - one, single, unshielded human mind - constantly bombarded with the cumulative brainwashing tools built of hundreds of years of psychological research, ads and manipulative propaganda being ceaselessly fed to them by organizations with bottomless wallets, and perverse lifestyle incentives driven by law, monopolistic market manipulation, and tax codes, is obviously completely to blame for every decision they make and should bear the full brunt of all responsibility.

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