jtrek comments on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Are Stupid

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's so frustrating how people just don't care about things. Especially if they're complicated or indirect.

They'll be like "but there's funny memes there" and I'm like there's humor in all sorts of places. Blank stare.

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s perfectly normal and you do it, too. Different people focus on different things. Nobody has the bandwidth to educate themselves about everything.

Ideally, we would trust people who focus on a topic, aka experts, so we could focus on our own interests. In reality, we just accept the easiest path for things we don’t have the time to focus on—that could be tech, fashion, food, sport, etc.

The problem is that people with a selfish profit motive have too much control over things that people want.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, we all do it. But some things are much harder to navigate (eg: driving a car when you live in a car-first hell is hard to avoid) vs just not using Twitter.

Rich people and capitalism are a bigger problem that arguably is easier to solve, though, to your point.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, but:

A majority of people really doesn't mind at all doing transactions with a person drenched in blood and having a weapon in their hands with the innards of other people on it.

Extreme example just to make the point clear. Oftentimes it's like 'uh I'm inconvenienced' as reasoning for choosing parking where emergency services could no longer get through or buying a product or using a service that is not only a detriment to us all but also with literal blood on their hands for the ugly dirty route.

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