They were maintaining the idea that we don’t live post scarcity. That there aren’t enough homes or food for the current population, so there can’t be enough for a large population. The rich will never give up being the elite class and will perpetuate artificial scarcity until they die.
Laid off, took a lower job at a company that was family owned for >25 years. 3 months after they hired me they sold the company to a foreign investor. 3 months later they laid of 1/3 of us.
Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.
I’m having a hard time understanding this. I guess I get not being 100% with the clusterfuck of news, but don’t think that’s a bad thing. If you don’t know what they’re talking about then just ask them what’s happening. Other than that is the only thing you have to talk about IRL are memes?
I try as hard as possible to not let the internet bleed into my real life. Saying or talking about a meme IRL is cringe that I cannot commit. I have plenty of hobbies, interests, knowledgeable experience, etc to be having normal human conversions. And usually so do other people.
Lemmy and YouTube are the only user created content that I view and don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. And I feel I should cut down my usage of both. I wouldnt say I’m a privacy freak but do as much as a can with as little effort because 90% of it doesn’t take much.
If you’re not happy and “just want to enjoy stuff” then go for it, do whatever makes you happy. I think its a pretty inconsequential decision. Only you know what’ll make you happy, sometimes you gotta try different things and figure out what the balance is to accomplish that.