The wealth disparity between the capitalist class and the working class in America now is worse than it was in France during French revolution.
The only reason "more people are moving out of poverty" is because we literally have more humans now.
You would totally be telling the French to shut up during the French revolution, because literally slavery exists somewhere else.
Leads to my favorite punchline/rebuttal combo "do you need the robot to fuck your wife for you too?"
It's such a different beast being a kid now, if your journal was misplaced it would probably get plastered all over social media and laughed at for being cringe. Obv kids have always had the capacity to be cruel, but the instant access and wide reach has such a punishing effect on outspoken individuality
I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.
I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho
Ah. Well you see I was raised to think that the US was an egalitarian society, that hard work leads to success, that people should be measured by their actions.
And I believed it. My bad, that's on me.
I figured out a couple years ago that pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't phase them. Some of them even enjoy having some leftie mad at them, it emboldens them.
Pharaoh moans
Earthworm Jim
Yeet the child
I love tech, just not the tech companies.
Your individual apathy to their surveillance may not mean much to anyone, but the collective apathy has allowed these companies to build business and make money off of surveiling the public, eroding our right to privacy, and paving a way for state surveillance
My new LG didn't require it, but the settings menu and 'home' screen nag about lack of connectivity.
"Why did you buy a smart TV if you didn't want the smart features" brother, it was the best tv in that price range and few true dumb ones exist in that range. IMO the smart features should be considered optional but I guess these companies don't agree
(I've heard peasant life in that time had better quality of life in the sense of stability in comparison to currently.)
You're misrepresenting my point. You were talking about quantity of people's lives being improved and now you're flipping to individual person's comparisons.