My partner and I were talking recently about apple watches and how if they existed under a different system then they could really be for the greater good. What are some other things that would have been very good under communism?

  • reddit [any,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Let's get extremely specific about something kind of dumb because it's something I thought about when it first came out: AirTags

    They're honestly a really cool piece of technology. A mesh network created by literally millions of devices, different model years, entirely different types of devices (phones, laptops, tablets), all talking together to be able to build a map that can find these other, low power devices, detect when you've lost them, and guide you to their location with an insane granularity. Under capitalism, however, this comes with the caveat of only existing inside the singular walled garden of Steve Jobs' phylactery, and all of that location data is harvested to be mined for any other crumb of value that can be extracted from it, wasting probably thousands of labor hours to more effectively learn that you take public transit to get to work.

    • discontinuuity [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The next hot trend in the gig economy will be private Stasi agents that follow people around and spy on what they consume.