This article has such palpable distain for the people who consume these products that it makes me wonder why the author even cares what kind of future they inhabit.
> But what is important to me is to keep the perspective of what consitutes a desirable future, and which actions get us closer or further from that.
Desirable to whom? I certainly don't think the status quo is perfect, but I do think dismissing it as purely the product of some faceless cadre of tech oligarchs desires is arrogant. People do have agency, the author just doesn't like what they have chosen to do with it...
> But what is important to me is to keep the perspective of what consitutes a desirable future, and which actions get us closer or further from that.
Desirable to whom? I certainly don't think the status quo is perfect, but I do think dismissing it as purely the product of some faceless cadre of tech oligarchs desires is arrogant. People do have agency, the author just doesn't like what they have chosen to do with it...