Really nice video on this, what are your thoughts? How can we turn it around?
I really, really think this video is overblowing it and doomering out for no reason. It’s a very obviously Gen Z perspective. The Internet has gone through many transitionary periods in the past, this isn’t going to be fundamentally different other than the fact that the change is decentralizing rather than centralizing like it has been for the past 2 decades.
Hopefully this will make people realize we should rethink the way we use the internet.
The End of
the Internetcapitalism is Here.FTFY
It’s not only internet companies. Capitalism as a whole seems to become more and more anti-consumer. Maybe we reached the point where further growth is just not possible anymore and thus the companies are coming up with more and more shit to milk their customers.
The only question is, can we get away from it?
What alternatives we do have are either worse (e.g. feudalism) or are so demonized in capitalist society any good-faith attempt at switching would be destroyed by a bunch of outsiders who know nothing about it (e.g. socialism (specifically, libertarian socialism)). And even if we do succeed in getting an alternative on the internet (or anywhere, really), the most powerful beings in whatever space we do it in will attempt to destroy us. The main reason for the “containment of communism”, or the attempt to do so at least, was not “saving people” from communism but actually fear of its spread, and what a communist world would do to the powerful, capitalist countries of the west. (For the record, that actually was the cause, I’m not trying and don’t want to spread tankie propaganda like Lemmy’s devs are. We need libertarianism.) Capitalism, like most other systems, is fragile if people consider alternatives, so people have been made to not consider those alternatives, and as a result everyone is locked into this sinking ship, with many not even realizing it’s sinking before it’s far too late to do anything to stop it.
Full agree. I don’t see a viable alternative right now, but I’m sure one will evolve naturally once everything around us is in ashes.
Definitely agree, there’s just no denying it will take a lot of valuable things down with it and make plenty of noise in the process :/
Oooh boy, for sure it will and I’m really not looking forward to it. I still think a big bada boom is required in order to restore a society where people are not getting fucked over anymore.
