I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

This is such a good distinction. Technology built to solve real problems vs technology built to extract value from people. The joy comes from the former and we used to have way more of it