Artemis_Mystique ( Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ) to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months 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-square63linkfedilinkarrow-up180
arrow-up180message-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 ( Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ) to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square63linkfedilink
minus-square0xtero ( 0xtero@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up32·3 months agoCapitalism makes every innovation into a grift
minus-squarethisisbutaname ( thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months 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 ( Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ) OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoSo what innovation would socialism turn into a grift?
minus-squareInfrapink ( Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoVanguardism, as seen in Russia and China.
minus-square0xtero ( 0xtero@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months 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