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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

dont blame the tech. blame the humans. humans suck, but not all, not even in aggregate. were nicer than we know, and were actually getting better!

that said, there is a small subset of outwardly powerful humans who deeply suck. these are the set who think that billionaires should exist. that the next quarters profits should come no matter what. i dont know what can be done about that other than humans regulating humans, which is difficult when you need to regulate the powerfully sucky.

its not a technology problem we have, its a human one.

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Exactly. It’s a handful of private companies with oodles of money who are specifically choosing to develop technology that extracts the most from their customers, instead of developing technology to help people.

It’s isn’t glamorous, and it doesn’t pay well (or at all) but there’s plenty you can do with programming that are unequivocal good things for the world.

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danhab99@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

there is a small subset of outwardly powerful humans who deeply suck

Yeah the deep shadowy cabal of suited white men pulling strings. I’ve heard of that and I disagree with it. I don’t think it exists. Maybe there are some big people who basically own their industry, but I refuse to accept that they exist outside of the media and insurance sphere. Media has no power unless government reinforces it, and we regulate the shit out of insurance companies. Now that’s not to say that we don’t regulate insurance enough, there’s plenty more control we the people can and need to take. Maybe there’s one or two other industries that are owned by a powerful person. But I refuse to believe that my government that I pay tax to, vote on, and listen to is too weak to snuff out a company that grows to the size of a government. FAANG is 10% as powerful as the US Federal government and I refuse to accept that it’s more.

We’ve seen our government repeatedly stomp out monopolies in the US and outside of it. There are plenty more to stomp out, but just because it hasn’t been done yet doesn’t discount the strength of us Americans projected by our government. We can change, and its hard.

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- originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  you misunderstand.
  
  were not talking about some shady organization. these are CEOs, politicians, heads of state, etc. it isnt some organized cabal. its just terrible humans who dont understand/care that they cause the suffering in the world with their own inherent selfishness.
  
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