I agree with the spirit of your post.
The issue arises, I think, if we forget that #capitalism is an _economic_ system. And a _political_ system, at most. _Not_ an ethical framework.
Capitalism may assign a rough “value” to individual human beings based on their economic output, but that's a byproduct of its calculations, and we should not equate that with “dignity” or “moral worth”.
It's like blaming the metric system for the fact that some people are very short. Or linguistics for the fact that some people have a different mother tongue and thus we can't communicate as easily with them.
Capitalism is fine within its sphere. As long as we make sure we use a different tool to measure moral weight, we'll be OK.
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I don’t know what stage of enlightenment this is, but I no longer am bothered by seeing inaccurate descriptions of things in the tech world that I have definitive knowledge about. I don’t even bother to correct. I am the tree that bends in the wind. All things in time. This too shall pass.
~7 km, ~40' beautiful steep #run to my brother-in-law's #vineyards and back. Snack: delicious #grapes ripe for harvest!
Not elections in Gabon. Not Ukraine. Not the crisis in Niger. Not protests in Syria.
Let alone the 1,323 children under 5 who died of #malaria _yesterday_.
No. This.
Explain to me again why I should care about “the news” when #news #media have a vested interest in pushing my buttons, their analyses are so biased, and their priorities so skewed.
About #priorities, case in point: today, major #newspapers in 🇪🇸 #Spain imply that by far the most important #news (as measured by real estate occupied on their front pages) is
what one person
who is the head of a federation of
one sport
in one country
says at a press conference about
one incident.
That incident was _not_ a crime. That person is _not_ an influential leader or thinker. There is no international conflict involved. Nobody died, or is going to die, or is going to survive, depending on the outcome of this.
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"It's the little things that count." - Transistors. They're called transistors.
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Blade Runner Spectralis - Cyberpunk Ambient Music - Background Music for Sleep and Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzToctbEpQ
It's not helping me sleep at all, but still good to listen while reading...
The contortions I have to make to copy a few podcast episodes to a #Samsung #Galaxy fitness tracker over BT…
Stupid app requiring a load of other stupid apps and background services just to be able to keep all my workouts inside a walled garden, and even then it's near impossible to get the files for anything useful.
The “send music to #Gear” feature tries to guess where my audio is (on my phone), but fails — so I have to manually copy and paste MP3s from obscure directories to some magic path, every time, to have the app send them to the device.
You building and selling a #gadget? This is the exhaustive list of apps, plugins, processes running in the background, accounts, subscriptions, online services, protocols and formats I want:
* Something I can mount as external storage over USB, or similarly over BT, with a regular file system containing all items in standard formats that are interoperable, that I can read and write without restrictions.
I have very bad #memory in general, but good memory for #places. It's interesting how I clearly remember where I was when I was reading certain #books, even many years later.
* _The Lord of the Rings_: trips by coach between Granada and Seville, 2005–2006.
* _Dracula_: commuting by bus between Madrid and Alcobendas, 2011 or 2012.
* _What Do You Care What Other People Think?_: beaches of Malta.
* _Don Quixote_: Tokyo, 2014–2016. _On Liberty_ ,too; I remember reading that at one of those popular cafes near Omotesando.
* _Swann's Way_: bus commutes in Madrid, 2019 or 2020.
And so on.
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Why do I trust the literary canon and the classics, then?
* Not just old but considered best by experts (literary critics, historians, artists, philosophers, writers themselves).
* Survived not among a handful of alternatives, but among _millions_ of other books, the vast majority lost and forgotten (ie plenty of variety and competition).
* To an extent, in art “consumed and appreciated by more” correlates with “quality” (by definition, because art should be liked by people).
* Today, definitely not propped by trends, intimidation, inertia, or consumerism (quite the contrary).
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#Tradition and the #LindyEffect are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.
Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…
Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.
Old ≠ good.
(#NaturalisticFallacy, you're next)
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please tell me a cool fact, i need to stop thinking about oldboy
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An informal take on #morality in a single sentence by #MichaelShermer:
> _“Try to expand the moral sphere and to push the arc of the moral universe just a bit further toward truth, justice, and freedom for more sentient beings in more places more of the time.”_
https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/ten-commandments-for-our-time
Probably the best distillation of #morality in one sentence, by #DerekParfit: “Everyone ought to follow the principles whose universal acceptanc...
