Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 12 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-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down114
arrow-up1136arrow-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 · 12 days agomessage-square158linkfedilink
minus-square0xtero@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up32·12 days agoCapitalism makes every innovation into a grift
minus-squarethisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 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-down3·12 days agoSo what innovation would socialism turn into a grift?
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·12 days agoVanguardism, as seen in Russia and China.
minus-square0xtero@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 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