half-baked funny thought: unbridled capitalism actually in a way forces society at large to confront various things it might have otherwise preferred to keep in the collective shadow forever, because people can make so much money off of fulfilling shadow desires
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It recently dawned on me that part of the reason tech CEOs so often take pains to agree with detractors that their products make people less agent-y is that their customers *want* to believe that they are less agent-y when interacting with the product
Permission to blame the product for one's use of the product becomes a feature of the product, and possibly a critical one
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It's the inverse of conscious-consumerism, where you pay more to have the product supposedly "offset" its own negative externalities.
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i don’t think i was quite on your wavelength the first time i read this tweet but i think i got it now and - damn girl. that’s some TLP shit right there
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In the modern psyche, alcohol and social media serve a similar role. Ubiquitous and less agentic forms of relaxation that only weirdos abstain from.
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It’s bad on purpose to make me abdicate all my responsibilities for when I click
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