i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
  • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    That was a great read.

    The point of all of this is to say: the tech utopia fantasy is truly dead to me. The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong.

    I feel this in my soul, because I was that leftist hippie who got into tech because he believed all this shit and getting disillusioned over time was just fucking painful and made me hate those goons with a passion.

    The straw I have left is that I’m not alone and that more people realize this and we make our own communities again that don’t suck. There’s still a long way to go, and Fedi has its own problems, especially when it comes to kick out the racists, sexists, and other bigots, but I try to stay positive that we’ll get there. At least to a degree.

    (I mean, we have Awful and it’s an example that you can keep the bar nazi-free if you want to.)

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    Just looked around their blog/website. Lots of great stuff here. Thanks for sharing.

    • Zoop@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Seconded! I’m happy to find another cool ‘small,’ kinda personal type of website/blog. Reminds me a lot of how surfing the World Wide Web used to be (in a good way!)

        • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          Extreme poverty in particular is a far less objective or meaningful measurement than you would think given how often the “everything is fine” crowd likes to cite it. The daily income defined as “extreme poverty” is abysmally low; $2 USD per day wouldn’t be enough to get basic necessities for food and shelter, and while its terrifying to think about having to live on even less we shouldn’t congratulate ourselves when the bar is just barely above the lowest levels of hell. Different poverty lines show different trends and by standards that would allow a person to live decently rather than merely avoiding the absolute worst deprivations we actually see very little change. And that’s before getting into the way poverty is distributed globally and the ways that even with the lowest poverty lines we see a lot of the poorest of the poor who have seen far less of a shift.

        • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
          9·
          2 years ago

          you’re pushing the “But on the other hand most hard quality of life indicators are up globally” line but like, the number of negative things you’ve listed is more than the positives.

          I mean, it’s almost as if you are manipulating yourself into questioning and rejecting reality*. You should stop doing that

          *there is no one word description for this action. Believe me, I looked, and I’d use it if it existed.

        • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
          34·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know shit about these stats, and everything can be debated, but just wanted to say: don’t let people get you down.

          Feeling positive/hopeful isn’t always appropriate about everything, but people in here are acting like it’s a mental illness.

    • fnix@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I feel like you’re just going offtopic here. I mean, poverty around the world may be down for reasons that have nothing to do with what Silicon Valley is peddling; the article specifically criticizes the latter’s particular “tech utopia” vision of the future and not what was written up in the UN Millennium Development Goals.