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by weq 1653 days ago
Spot on points here. I love it how everyone i know with a fitness tracker always talks about there 10k steps for a few months and it fades off into oblivion. Like taking steps matters when your holding your phone in envey of whatever the alrogithm feeds you.

Sport will not perpetuate human existence. It was originally created to keep humans in shape for hard the graft of living off the land. Just look at any aboriginal culture, they knew they had done enough steps today when they had enough food.

The fitness tracker was created to make you feel better about being taken for a ride (in life). For those who needs affirmation from their peers that they arnt wasting there life away working for a whatever click bait porn floats onto there device next.

20 yrs from now? we already have big piles of ewaste everywhere.

I once interviewed for a startup making bluetooth diapers for old folks ~2013.

My recommended fitness tracker is to turn off all your devices and go outside into nature at every opportunity. Find a company who will let you be a remote developer and start living for today.*