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What are some little things capitalism did that annoyed you personally. (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've got two off the top of my head:

First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn't been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.

Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they're so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a 'jump to recipe' button.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

every cool new idea or invention must be made to bend to the will of Capital or extinguished (most often both)

p2p file sharing > subscription streaming services etc

texting (costs basically nothing because it fit in unused spaces within existing protocols) > every carrier charges for it for a decade or more even though it didn't cost them anything and was not a reliable service

Stonewall > Corporate and Law Enforcement Pride Events

there's plenty of examples beyond these if you think for a few minutes

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma’s coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…

joyce-messier

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recuperation destroyed even the vague promise of what blockchain technology could have done in a very different world. It was crushed under mountains upon mountains of pump and dump investment grifts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I feel like digital currency was my break with normies, like how do you really think that Bitcoin can supplant the USD?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for teaching me a new term!

Also the texting thing still pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

P2P file sharing is a great example of how capitalism claims to value efficiency, yet will cling on to inefficient methods if it's profitable.

”What do you mean you'd rather just download one song for free than go to the store to buy a CD for $20?”