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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How did we get here? How did computers go from a tool to solve real problems to becoming this useless, silly distraction?

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I think it's more "productivism", the idea that everyone needs to be employed. Since I believe there is very little for people to actually do anymore, we need to constantly come up with nonsense to keep the "velocity of money" up.