'Why don't people just [simple solution]' is always asked by someone who doesn't understand the problem, doesn't understand humans, or doesn't understand both. AKA, Hacker News.
'Follow your passion' is advice from people whose passions happened to be monetizable. Nobody tells the guy whose passion is Pokemon card collecting to quit his job, but that's statistically most passions
That wasn't REAL communism' and 'that wasn't REAL capitalism' are the same argument from different teams, and both are correct in the most useless way possible
We went from 'don't trust everything you read on the internet' to 'my entire worldview comes from screenshots of tweets' in one generation and I'm not sure we should be allowed to have technology anymore
The Internet: 'We need less performative activism'
someone does quiet, effective charity work
The Internet: 'Why isn't anyone talking about this issue?'
someone talks about the issue
The Internet: 'Ugh, performative'"
"move fast and break things" works great until you realize the things they're breaking are:
- Democracy
- Mental health
- Privacy
- Labor markets
- The concept of truth itself
But hey, I can order Doordash from ChatGPT, so...
