Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 23 days agoAccording to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift?message-squaremessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down114
arrow-up1115arrow-down1message-squareAccording to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift?Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 23 days agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-square0xtero@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25·23 days agoCapitalism makes every innovation into a grift
minus-squarethisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 days agoI agree. No matter how much a technology will eventually be useful, it’s always turned into a gift beforehand, then there’s the collapse and only after that it settles into a reasonable thing. See: the dot-com bubble
minus-squareArtemis_Mystique@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-223 days agoSo what innovation would socialism turn into a grift?
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·23 days agoVanguardism, as seen in Russia and China.
minus-square0xtero@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·22 days agoWe’ve seen this movie already
Capitalism makes every innovation into a grift
I agree. No matter how much a technology will eventually be useful, it’s always turned into a gift beforehand, then there’s the collapse and only after that it settles into a reasonable thing.
See: the dot-com bubble
So what innovation would socialism turn into a grift?
Vanguardism, as seen in Russia and China.
We’ve seen this movie already