Comment by gjsman-1000
21 days ago
Because only 5% of American adults are highly literate with technology, 30% of working adults self-identify as "never (ever!)" using folders and files for organization, and most people have better things to do with their time to be taught to perfectly analyze the safety of an App Store. Don't hope in the next generation either - only 38% of Gen Z could successfully complete tasks more difficult than moving an email between folders, while an IEA study found that only 2% of Gen Z had reached the anticipated "digital native" stereotype level of fluency.
I would argue that Gen Z is worse at computers than Millennials specifically because we put too many guardrails in place to make computing easy for the illiterate. Now we are all paying the price, as user agency is continually eroded away to further protect the dumb from their own unwillingness to gain a basic understanding of the very tools critical to their daily life.
Can you please post the source of the study?
Over 4% of working US adults work in IT [1]
[1] https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/economy/spotl...
Thank you. The number sounds impossibly high. Like I did meet people like it, but not nearly as often.
Firstly what is the source and secondly, the US is not the majority user of mobile phones and especially not android.
I don't really understand. These people would never download F-droid in the first place or go into settings to enable dev mode.
And besides if you really want to combat fraud stop using creditcards for fuck sake and make a modern payment system that doesn't rely on 1970s technology.