• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    How did we get here? How did computers go from a tool to solve real problems to becoming this useless, silly distraction?

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        6 days ago

        I think it’s more “productivism”, the idea that everyone needs to be employed. Since I believe there is very little for people to actually do anymore, we need to constantly come up with nonsense to keep the “velocity of money” up.