Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻musk fuckin up in public and crypto just absolutely tanking and self-driving cars clearly never coming together and "da metaverse" being its whole entire deal has me hopeful that fatuous tech futurism may be finally on the out. Maybe this can be replaced with envisioning a future worth living in
robin@vegetablegremlin more likely it leads to global belt tightening, where the rich hunker down to deprive the poor. Yay
@vegetablegremlin I mean this is clearly tied up with entering a deep global recession causing billions to suffer. It's hard to spin a positive story
@vegetablegremlin I agree it feels good to watch Musk, Zuckerberg and crypto bros eat humble pie but people can't survive on schadenfreude alone
@nottrobin like literally nothing in my post was schadenfreude. I think you are posting on autopilot here.
@vegetablegremlin no the schadenfreude is all me. I'm just much more sceptical that anything good is gonna come out of the current environment. I hope I'm wrong.
@nottrobin this system seems inevitable but so did the divine right of kings
@vegetablegremlin oh yeah I'm excited for the fall of neoliberalism / capitalism. It has to happen one day. I'm just not holding my breath.
@nottrobin well no that breath should be used to connect, commune and organize, and that requires at some root a belief it is possible. Fatalism is an indulgence.
@vegetablegremlin I think I can manage to do both 😉