i think the thing i hate the most is when someone says some variation on “people wanted it so that is why we have it now” about a shitty thing that’s everywhere. i just saw some fuckwit say it about touchscreens in cars. “well, everyone wants touchscreens now”
it’s never true! how would it even be true. who tied such a fuckin’ knot in your brain that you’d believe that backwards shit
in reply to @joewintergreen’s post:
Someone hasn’t read Manufacturing Consent
i skimmed it. boy manufactures consent, has a few laughs. i forget how it ends
Hahaha. Although I didn’t mean you I meant the jerkoff saying things about touchscreens in cars
haha yeah i figured
if by “people”, you mean “investors”, then yes
I was about to say basically this.
Same energy as someone who earnestly believes that Apple removed their headphone jack because of “courage”.
The fact that those “people” could be counted on one hand and had upper managerial positions at the company definitely means that people wanted it…
It reminds me that, before Amazon bought them, Woot (then a daily-deal site) had a running joke of something like “you know what people want? People want (whatever they were going to do). I dunno who…people.”
AI is another great example. It’s being shoehorned into every fuckin’ thing imaginable, and not a single person wants it.
Some people have never heard of supply-side economics and it shows
I think some people develop this reflex in reacting to something shitty where they other and set themselves apart from everyone else who’s being affected by it – “oh People are Stupid, i’m not one of them but they must have wanted the bad thing so here we are, thank god i’m Smart and know it’s bad” – even when that’s basically never true, it’s just some horrible shit an executive decided to try inflicting on the population to chisel some money or attention out of us or w/e. I see it a lot with a particular kind of Linux/FOSS guy where they’ll look at some new thing making life worse for eg Windows users and scoff in superiority at it, like “Well you made your bed Windows “lusers” now sleep in it” when in reality it’s ordinary people who logged into their computers one day and found it had turned on them. It’s just another form of ugly elitist superiority complex and it’s super corrosively anti-solidarity and needs to be squirted with the water sprayer every time.
well put, that
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