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What are some little things capitalism did that annoyed you personally. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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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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[–] 23 points 3 years ago*

It fucking sucks when a job, something that gave a livelihood to the person doing the job and also helping others that the job was connected to, gets destroyed in favor of stonks-up whether through outsourcing, insourcing, or replacing someone with a janky machine.

EDIT: Before some capital-M Materialist(tm) gets foamy about that, let me specify that I'm talking about the job actually being done worse by whatever replaces it (such as staff counselors being replaced with chatbots) and about the person being replaced basically being told to fuck off because some rich asshole wants another yacht.

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