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  • It’s planned obsolesence. They make more money by marketing high tech/luxury stuff and having it break on purpose in a defined amount of time.

    I got some Carhartt “worker” jeans, advertized as nice jeans for manual laborers.

    I work from home in my home office. The crotch tore in less than 6 months of hard… sitting.

    Expensive shit they want you to buy over and over again because they think you’re an idiot. I learned to sew, learned to darn my nice wool socks that tore predictably in 6 months, repair and maintain my motorcycle, repair my plumbing, because fuck all this enshittification.

    My new MO is to buy your shit once, and either i will say your brand is great or keep wearing my torn/repaired carhartt jeans and keep reminding people never to buy them unless they want to learn how to sew. Fuck these greedy pieces of shit.





  • terranoid@lemmy.cafetomemes@lemmy.worldHate to see it
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    1 month ago

    i think one thing people miss is that counter culture movements sometimes win people over in the worst ways and they get really extreme ideas, or really extreme people get spun up in them and become little evil vorticies of power and influence. The sixties spawned the civil rights movement, peace movement. It also created the Manson family. There’s a sort of yin and yang to these things IMO, creation and destruction. It’s like a period of high energy and change and that can get used in many creative and destructive ways.

    Some people see today as terrible and think socialism will fix it. Others, fascism. Two people agree that current leaders are failing, but for different reasons. And when everyone is demanding change, you can get some dangerous people to pop out of the wood work.

    People like Musk and Thiel grow up in free thinking environments and in counter culture meccas and are a direct result of that energy. They dont run counter to it. They are a product of it.




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    2 months ago

    Yeah, i think we were raised in similar narcissistic households and maybe others didn’t share that experience as much. My parents got a scent of the gifted child effect and tried to do everything to nurture it.

    For so long they made me feel like I was super special but as an adult I can see how unhealthy it all was, and how much they fed off that attention.

    Maybe for some children it was a normal gauge of how well the child is doing, but for myself every little achievement felt like, “oh so you felt okay with x? let’s see how well you can do x+1. You know there’s a kid who took college classes at 16? I think we should sign you up. What about astronomy? Have you heard of space camp?”

    I felt like failure was terrible because of how disappointed they’d look if i didn’t take well to some new assignment. Completely fucked way to grow up.


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    2 months ago

    I never thought of it that way, but now that I look back at it, it’s true. It was all way more for the parents. The kid was an essential asset for their ego. They were competing for who had the most successful child.

    What can kids do? Read, and books=smart, so they were competing with each other at how good their kid was at… reading. So they came up with bullshit metrics like, “my child is in 4th grade but just finished a book at a 9th grade level… isn’t your child in 8th grade? Wow, my child is reading books he can’t even understand yet.”

    It was always about the fucking parents.





  • This honestly shouldn’t be surprising. Tech is often untrusted at first.

    This caused the dot com bust and likely will fuel the AI bubble. New cool tech comes out and actually does cool stuff, people hate it, distrust it, don’t want to use it, meanwhile others think it’s the wave of the future and throw all their money at it.

    And there’s one big problem with that, the last thing specifically… they throw their money at something new before a market is ready to trust and adopt it, and they do so in an unsustainable way. Unsustainable investments cause bubbles. This is money that can’t keep getting pumped into the tech, money that a lot of startups depend on.

    People didn’t think you’d ever spend money on weird websites, trust credit cards to be entered online. So many groundbreaking ideas busted in the dot com bubble because they came too soon, not because they were bad ideas. WebVan was online groceries! Groundbreaking idea that was literally 30 years ahead of its time, and now they failed, but who does what they tried to do? Amazon, yes the little online marketplace for books Amazon, the quaint little site where you can buy books over http.

    The market needed credit card safety measures, needed PayPal, stripe, fraud detection and management, needed new technologies to build consumer trust. Eventually, we started using the internet to buy shit and it worked out.

    Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit. Same phenomenon really. It’ll take a while before the market adopts the tech and consumers trust it. Eventually they will, but not yet.