| >Technology is a slave to capital. You mean it's slave to people controling capital? Because capital by itself isn't sentient or capable of making decisions. >Talking about technology as though it has any moral imperative other than "make more money" in the West is naive at best. Technology have moral consequences, not a "moral imperative". Technology doesn't care if it counts number of Jews, carrots or cans of Zyklon-b. But people should, and normal people do. Tehnology shouldn't be an excuse to do whatever you want, because "computer said so". Someone programed/tauhgt that computer. Someone is responsible for it. >At worst it is not only boring to anyone over 21, but it's counter productive to improving the world. Capital, corporations and billionaires are human inventions, so does kings, slavery, white supremacy, misogyny. Kings didn't stopped to be kings just because everyone asked them nicely. It took time but in the end, kings were no more. Because in the end they depend on ordinary people to do their biddings. Jeff Bezos doesn't check if drivers reached their quota of urin filled bottles, people (directly or indirectly) do this. >In short: let me read what I want and save your moralizing for the people who actually make decisions. None of which are technologists (any more). Not talking about problematic technologies, decisions made by people in power doesn't make them go away. Pretending bad things didn't happen is delusional, but just talking doesn't help either. Actions are also needed, even if they are inconvenient or dangerous. There are many ways change can be brought, protests, civil disobedience and more. But pretending everything is ok, will make every call to action fail, even before it started. |