Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

@piegames It drives me up a wall when my mom needs help doing something on a website, and the thing she is trying to do intuitively is EXACTLY how it SHOULD work, but for some really bullshit reason it doesn't work