I, for one, do not miss my Motorola flip-phone nor my 0.3Kbps modem. My life is greatly enhanced by many innovations and purchases over the last few {centuries, decades, years (and even months—buying a new 4K streaming device was minor but real)}.
It’s simply not true that things haven’t improved, nor that many objects and purchases _can_ improve your life. You don’t buy a car to go to work to pay for the car. You buy a car to drive to the mountains and go camping, and you accept that you need to go to work to pay for that.
You’re right that many don’t seem to pay attention to the choices they’re making, and they fail to optimize the places they’re putting effort and getting personal value. Almost all nerds undervalue social and relationship effort, and overvalue measurable earning and spending. Don’t do that, but also don’t artificially limit yourself from very valuable things because they requires money.
You’re right, there definitely have been positive innovations—my writing may have been a bit too strong-winded there. I suppose it’s the side effects of these that ruin it for me: the advertising, smartphone games, in-app purchases—the useless.
I obviously ended up in some kind of a middle ground: while I use latest computers for work and infrequent video gaming, my phone is a Nokia 8110 4g mostly because I can’t stand how modern ones look: but there’s also nothing one can’t fix with them at home, as opposed to weird computer issues new ones run into (I don’t believe I need to provide examples, but if this is disputed I certainly can).
Overall my issue is clearly not just with needless innovation but with capitalism at large, and it’s all so hard to grasp at in writing. You’re right, just like with anything else, the trick is finding the middle ground happy path.
I, for one, do not miss my Motorola flip-phone nor my 0.3Kbps modem. My life is greatly enhanced by many innovations and purchases over the last few {centuries, decades, years (and even months—buying a new 4K streaming device was minor but real)}.
It’s simply not true that things haven’t improved, nor that many objects and purchases _can_ improve your life. You don’t buy a car to go to work to pay for the car. You buy a car to drive to the mountains and go camping, and you accept that you need to go to work to pay for that.
You’re right that many don’t seem to pay attention to the choices they’re making, and they fail to optimize the places they’re putting effort and getting personal value. Almost all nerds undervalue social and relationship effort, and overvalue measurable earning and spending. Don’t do that, but also don’t artificially limit yourself from very valuable things because they requires money.
You’re right, there definitely have been positive innovations—my writing may have been a bit too strong-winded there. I suppose it’s the side effects of these that ruin it for me: the advertising, smartphone games, in-app purchases—the useless.
I obviously ended up in some kind of a middle ground: while I use latest computers for work and infrequent video gaming, my phone is a Nokia 8110 4g mostly because I can’t stand how modern ones look: but there’s also nothing one can’t fix with them at home, as opposed to weird computer issues new ones run into (I don’t believe I need to provide examples, but if this is disputed I certainly can).
Overall my issue is clearly not just with needless innovation but with capitalism at large, and it’s all so hard to grasp at in writing. You’re right, just like with anything else, the trick is finding the middle ground happy path.
Cheers, thanks for the commentary!