Disillusioned with the Direction of Society and Technology
by morpheos137 on Hacker News.
Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation. Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies. They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world. Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole. For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative. What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster? I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.