Can’t stop thinking about this in the context of tech. Of course technological advances are a good thing, but isn’t there a point where progress for the sake of progress stifles any productive use? Who exactly is benefiting here? A decade or so ago, I was still able to communicate how I’m communicating now, but things have gotten substantially worse.
I’m looking at the state of the internet and can’t help but look at how every algorithmic breakthrough has just been used to gather data for marketing purposes or targeted advertisements. Lmao and I don’t even know how you can consider that progress to be honest.
The wildest part about this is that you don’t even need to be a leftist to agree. Everyone hates targeted ads and marketing bullshit besides people who make money in marketing and advertisement.
Tech changes for the sake of change because it needs a reason to keep people working. Business won't allow people to sit and just maintain a completed product cos they don't want to pay people to work 1 hour a week so features must be added everything must be scaled more more more. The result is a bunch of crap with needless changes that gets worse and worse with more and more data harvesting added since thats the only "feature" anyone can think of adding in.
So many advances in tech serve mostly to just harvest more data for an advertising bubble thats sure to burst at some point. And the things that would actually help people aren't profitable so are never made.