[dontwannahearit]

You want human things? Put down the technology and go and connect with some humans.

But yes, the original poster with their allusions to lost limbs and "pointless swinging in a vast, unquantifiable emptiness.." is overreacting, depressed or both.

The slop will continue until it is no longer profit-making for someone.

[CooCooCaCha]

Appeals to individualism and capitalism, why am I not surprised.

[santoshalper]

It's worked so well in the past, surely it will work this time.

[t-3]

The fact that profit motives exist and motivate people isn't an "appeal to capitalism", it's just a statement of reality. The best way to stop slop is to put it out of business. People don't make slop for social prestige.

[dylan604]

> is overreacting, depressed or both.

even if it is, that is their feelings. your outright dismissal of them is far more sad in my opinion than their feelings. lack of empathy is a truly sad state.