I know you may be surprised by this.

But there's a lot of people that are absolutely not engaged politically, emotionally or humanly speaking to many decisions they take.

They don't understand the concept of taking a stance. From their perspective, even in awful products there is good and that is what matters.
They don't see actions even really bad ones as being bad. They only want to see the progress that can potentially be made, the use of the tools, the positive that it can bring you.

I know that this may sound weird especially here in #mastodon it is a very foreign concept. I have found these people in any circles, medical, legal, banking, engineering, etc.

What surpises me the most is that in general these people come at it from very different angles:
- it doesn't matter
- I can't do anything about it
- False assumptions (generally taken from marketing of the products they use.)
- acknowledging that they are doing something wrong but setting it as not so bad because xyz reason

It is very interesting, because for people that are terminally online, this may sound fully foreign.

Here is a few of the complex topics on which I had the chance to argue:
- #AI
- #enshitification #righttorepair
- #programmedobsolescense
- #ecology / #pollution
- #aibubble / #stocks
- #tesla #nvidia #Samsung #Google #Facebook

Basically amazing talks but challenging as well.

What I learned from it is that normal day people, even the ones with prestigious titles in a fancy bank or hospitals are basically all the same.
Everyone has their own problems, their own life, and most importantly their own goals. Even as simple as making money because that's what you need to do to keep a job (investor).

It is quite magical to be honest.
It's these touch grass moments that bring everyone together regardless of our individual feelings towards certain politics, technologies or corporations.

But it's also a double learning, I learned that, we, as a community of empowered people need to push harder to build better tools, better companies, better politics and better cities. If you are empowered to create something you can do both good and bad, and regardless of what you choose the people around you will rely on what you build and on it's defaults.

Siempre he tenido ganas de tener una. Ahora que veo esto, ni de coña.

#kitchenaid #obsolescenciaprogramada
#programmedobsolescense #cocina #kitchen #utensils #utensilios #robots

Por qué el KitchenAid de tu abuela sigue funcionando (y el tuyo no)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zVGjoc998D0&is=1ZumPLvCDcrKEJbE