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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I always thought those scifi stories where companies basically rule everything were overblown, but you just see it changing to that in real time.

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

God I hope I get accepted into the Apple burbclave

It happened before, it could and is happening again. The East India Trading Company was the most profitable company in the world after looting and conquering India on behalf of Britain.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 9 hours ago

With the exception of smart phones, most of the things that make the now bad were unrelated to the tech

Climate change is happening because changing the way the world gets its energy is slow. Fossil fuels way predate flight

Lack of social cohesion is due to the car allowing us to isolate ourselves in sparse suburbia rather than to live in neighbourhoods

Wars are older than humanity but are affecting fewer of us now than in the past, though things were even more peaceful a couple of decades ago

The capture of almost all the value of labour by the owner class could probably have happened anyway, it started before computers, perhaps it was accelerated by computers