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If someone wants to fight the "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy. The reasons for making noise
by beevai142 10y ago
If someone wants to fight the "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy. The reasons for making noise about this given in the article are not personal, but ideological. Presumably, it works as intended if it feels annoying.
- whack 10y agoBut the enemies he's railing against have nothing to do with the cause he's trying to champion. The central message of the blog post is to let go of consumerism, which I can certainly get behind. But consumerism has nothing to do with the latest generation of tech companies. Costly hotels existed long before AirBNB came along. Taxis existed long before Uber came along. Restaurants and maids existed long before Handy or Seamless. If you want to be anti-consumerist, if you want to minimize your living expenses, go right ahead. But vilifying Seamless, and the people who would rather use Seamless and spend the extra hour reading instead of cooking, is just masturbatory righteous-indignation.
- jack9 10y ago> "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy Whut? I'm not sure that has ever been effective at reversing course. Sometimes a society has changed course, but that's just because this message got lumped in with the have-nots, which is unrelated. This sentiment has never been satisfied, so I'll disagree that shutting up and moving on is a bad strategy. It's the ONLY strategy since it's tied to frontiersman thinking of having too much after enduring risk.