Comment by sebastianconcpt
4 months ago
Quite some time ago I said and now repeat:
Convenience is to humans, what bulb lights at night are to bugs.
4 months ago
Quite some time ago I said and now repeat:
Convenience is to humans, what bulb lights at night are to bugs.
Ridiculous.
Stand in a hospital and say that credibly. I recommend the maternity ward.
Our consumer markets are a wreck. We have no federal watch dog exercising any authority. We have unchecked intelligence agencies actively trying to enslave the world. Our desire for convenience is not the problem, the people taking advantage of it are.
Why a hospital? There's very little convenience at play when it's a life and death situation.
It is what drives the market quite a bit at least. It's why we've produced over 2 billion cars and use them every day to pollute our own air so we don't have to walk two blocks. Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer. It's why we have supply chains up the wazoo to bring products from all corners of the globe to everyone's nearby supermarket, a large amount of it getting thrown away when it's expired unsold. We fly across countries for something as pointless as a business meeting. Hell people now even order a taxi for their food, so they don't have to go out to get it.
Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience. Of course people with the option to do so will exploit the one thing that's easily exploitable, that's like water flowing downhill.
> Why a hospital?
Maternity is most often not "life and death." Is the maternity ward just a convenience? Or is the cost worth the benefit? You don't seem to be doing any form of honest analysis.
> Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer.
Yes, because, those save time. It's worth having a point of view that other people saving their time, and thus freeing it for more worthwhile endeavors is ultimately a net positive for all of society. You pass these off as mere conveniences. It's a rather bleak misanthropic outlook you seem to have acquired.
> Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience.
People own cars to drive more than two blocks. You're only making the most ridiculous version of the argument and you don't have very much to back it up.
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Surprisingly close minded and selective read. That way you'll see black swans even in paradise (or the whatever utopialand of your choice).
No pain, no gain.