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author | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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Replace instances of 'any more' with 'anymore'
'anymore' means 'any longer'. 'any more' is incorrect.
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diff --git a/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md b/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md index 2125f83..6eaad68 100644 --- a/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md +++ b/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ So we have to make it easier for people not to consume product by getting rid of ## No Right to Repair Then there's the right to repair. See [Louis Rossman](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w?dark_mode=true) about this one. In the past, goods shipped with guides on how to repair them yourself with detailed diagrams. Companies didn't treat their customers like idiots who are too stupid to be allowed to fix their own stuff. -Is it not insane that the newer vehicles produced today including cars, trucks, and John Deere tractors can't be repaired by their owners? You used to be able to work on your own vehicles, but not any more! Now you have to take it to the car dealership because only they have the tools to fix it. If you actually want to repair your own vehicle, you have to buy the old models. +Is it not insane that the newer vehicles produced today including cars, trucks, and John Deere tractors can't be repaired by their owners? You used to be able to work on your own vehicles, but not anymore! Now you have to take it to the car dealership because only they have the tools to fix it. If you actually want to repair your own vehicle, you have to buy the old models. It's the same in tech as well. Wanna fix your new laptop? Well you better take it to the laptop repair store because good luck taking it apart. [Modern repairable laptops are still pretty niche.](https://frame.work) If you want something you can actually repair, you have to research what you're buying first and most people aren't going to do that. You should be able to go to your local Best Buy and anything you buy should be repairable, but no. Instead we're stuck paying a quarter of the price of the laptop for a few replacement keys for the keyboard. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The same thing is happening with focused attention all over the world. Johann Ha Whenever I see very young children playing on Ipads all day, giving their childhood to these huge companies that profit off of them, it depresses me. It's wrecking their brains. The thousands of engineers at Google and Netflix and Facebook have figured out how to hijack the brain's reward system and profit off of it. We are puppets pulling our own strings and we have no idea the long term implications of this on mental health. -It's to the point you can't even watch a full movie or have a meal with people any more without them pulling out their phones to watch some mindless Tiktok because they're not entertained for two split seconds. And I can't even be mad at them because they're victims. These online platforms have destroyed their ability to pay focused attention to anything. Professors don't even ask students to read books any more. They tell them to go watch short YouTube videos because they know their students' attention can't stay on any one thing for too long. People just live in this blur of constant stimulation and switching tasks, incurring the overhead of context switching and exhausting their brain. +It's to the point you can't even watch a full movie or have a meal with people anymore without them pulling out their phones to watch some mindless Tiktok because they're not entertained for two split seconds. And I can't even be mad at them because they're victims. These online platforms have destroyed their ability to pay focused attention to anything. Professors don't even ask students to read books anymore. They tell them to go watch short YouTube videos because they know their students' attention can't stay on any one thing for too long. People just live in this blur of constant stimulation and switching tasks, incurring the overhead of context switching and exhausting their brain. One of the most important points Johann Hari makes in his book Stolen Focus, which by the way I plan to dedicate an entry to, is that unchecked capitalism leads to overconsumption and attention problems. The more focused attention people spend on one single task at a time, the less they will be task switching. The less people task switch, the less ads and media they see and the less products they'll consume. After you've saturated the consumer base for a product and you cannot raise prices any more, the only thing you can do is make people consume more. Make them interrupt their day more often doing what you want them to do. That necessarily means less attention dedicated to more important things. |