Aral Balkan@Christopher @hannu_ikonen They didn’t exploit people’s laziness. They (capitalists) – chasing exponential growth and profit (as well as power and control) — invested their capital in surveillance-based, extractive and exploitative businesses.
What’s lazy is blaming the victims.
When 99.99999% of investment goes into people-farming operations, the people being farmed are the victims. They have no real choice. And we end up mired in technofascism.
And whatever alternatives you might see folks like us working on – the non-bullshit ones (so I’m not talking about blockchain grifts) – statistically, we do not exist. That’s how tiny we are. That’s how little investment we get from the commons.
So if there is anyone to blame, it’s the sociopaths in Silicon Valley and Big Tech in general – the VCs and their ilk and the asshats they fund – not the general population.
And as long as we in the free software world believe that freedom and convenience are somehow a dichotomy instead of making our tools as easy to use as possible; as long as we blame the “dumb users” – you know, like the brain surgeon who has brain surgery in the morning and doesn’t have time to figure out how to operate our unusable contraptions – well, as long as we keep with that arrogant attitude, nothing is going to change.
So maybe let’s reconsider it.
Christopher :coffefied:
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