[FrustratedMonky]

"industry' is not hellbent on destroying society"

Think you are missing the point.

It is not an actual back room with dudes twirling their mustaches with concrete plans to destroy the world.

It is the 'profit motive' that forces a thousand small decisions, that you go along with because you have a mortgage to pay.

And all added up they destroy the world.

[bluegatty]

"And all added up they destroy the world."

That is total nonsense.

You people have lost your minds, this is worse than a bad reddit thread.

Neither 'industry' not 'software' is 'destroying the world'.

Also ""Think you are missing the point.

It is not an actual back room with dudes twirling their mustaches ""

Thanks for the 'deep insight'?!?

Do you think you're conversing with a 14 year old, struggling with abstractions?

FYI - I've lived around the world, 'studied industry' formally, worked in a handful of them.

We're more prosperous than we have ever been, by a long mile.

There are some externalizations that are not healthy, but almost all of it is simply due to the large footprint we have on the earth.

Thankfully the population will scale back a bit and we'll probably harmonize.

But the very notion that 'the industry is destroying the world' is so juvenile and nihilist, it's just ridiculous.

[CRConrad]

> Do you think you're conversing with a 14 year old, struggling with abstractions?

Sure sounds like it.

[FrustratedMonky]

'the industry is destroying the world'

Sorry. It think there were several themes here.

"Capitalism", leads to a thousand little decisions, that destroy the world. I've seen plenty of middle managers, that when they have to make their quarterly numbers, will dump toxic waste into the river upstream of a kindergarten.

Then "Industry". Look up some of the philosophy around 'e/acc'. They are definitely wanting to destroy the 'humans'. So maybe not the 'world', just all the 'humans'. And since the 'e/acc' comprise a large component of AI companies, and AI is driving the industry. I think there is a fair argument that the "Industry" does want to do harm to 'humans'. But maybe humans doesn't equal the 'world'.

"Do you think you're conversing with a 14 year old, struggling with abstractions?"

Yes, a little bit. You posted a single sentence. How does that convey that you are some industry veteran. Though, I do see you have posted more since then. But not what I saw at that time.

To some of your other posts. Yes, Today is better, and Tech is a big part of that. I don't think that should imply that it is a never ending fountain of good, just ignore any problems. It isn't like Industries can't go downhill. What? We can't talk about it. Could be we are steadily pushing up the mountain until we go over a cliff. Look up Black Swan events.