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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Technology has started to make it easier and easier to be anti consumer. To maximise how much you can extract out of consumers.

    It is making it easier to understand and control exactly how they use products and services. This allows you to structure your price and offering to give them the minimum amount they’ll accept at the maximum price. Allows you to strip features out and offer them for extra. Allows you to hide things behind ongoing subscriptions. Allows you to better lock people into products and services, making it more difficult to switch/leave.

    All of this was possible (and being done) before, but technology makes this so much easier/better.

    Technologies often start out by making something easier for the consumer. But beyond the early stages, it’s all about making the world better - for the corporations developing and selling products and services.











  • MusketeerX@lemm.eetoStarfield@lemmy.zip*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Totally agree. Wish I hadn’t chosen the dream home perk

    1. Because it’s empty and I couldn’t be bothered mining resources and making stuff

    2. Because that house is in the middle of nowhere

    3. The Vanguard quest gave me a free penthouse in New Atlantis which I like better

    But of course that penthouse is also empty and I don’t even have the option to make a double bed for some reason (sorry Sarah!)

    So I just use my room in constellation as home.








  • MusketeerX@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldPeak civilisation
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    3 years ago

    I still remember 1 Jan 2000. There did seem to be some sense of optimism about where things could go. At least for those of us lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries.

    Cold war over, Russia and The West seemingly on the same side, China opening up, exciting new tech connecting us but no toxic social media yet…

    But then… the dot com bust, 9/11, the GFC, toxic social media and the rise of “the algorithm”, Xi in China, Putin in Russia, a global pandemic…

    Didn’t really go where we hoped, can we restore to a backup from 1999 and try again??