@tante This was an excellent read, and very much mirrors my thoughts.
Also, I had not heard of Aftermath before!
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As I told younger folks when I was a mentor:
When I was young, I wanted to change the world for the better.
Now that I'm old, I understand how *resistant* the world is to being changed for the better.
@tante Oh so much this... I grew up before the Age of Enshittification. Technology was *NEAT*!
The big difference between then and now is that every new tech was simply something trying to create something new that people might enjoy. Sure they did it because it would (hopefully) sell (so still for capitalist reasons) but the key is: we weren't the product. Now every new tech is built solely around exploiting US as the product and the tech is just the means to get us trapped inside.
@tante Considering how some parts of the far right don't believe in things like vaccines, clean energy and almost everything said by actual scientists, it is difficult to take a sentence like "the left doesn't believe in technology" with any credibility. The article you commented on is really just stupid propaganda and rage bait.
I agree with what you said, but I think content like that should simply be ignored as interacting with it gives it more credibility and weight while it is just garbage.
@dision they're fantastic
@sabrinabonfert @dision oh, I apologize, will fix. Thanks for pointing that out!
@tante oh damn!
This resonates so much that I feel it in my bones ...
@tante
My view is that the issue is not so much do we like technology or not, but rather what we think our relationship to the producers of the technology should be.