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Interesting inference, the meme implies that if society was thriving then it wouldn’t be a nightmare machine.
Is that honestly true? If most software on people’s devices was FOSS and the world was like 20-30 years ago, would it have the same magic of the past?
I’m curious how much or it is form factor and the addiction that goes along with it.
Personally I think it would be very different. Sometimes I get lost in an obsession over a random topic, I go to wikis instead or doomscrolling. I would imagine that smartphones in a good world would mostly be that.
Oh and games that aren’t trying to be gacha
It's nostalgia.
People were just as shitty in 2007 as they are today. They just didn't have FB accounts to publicize it to the world and they didn't use social media to make money back then.
People don't remember the past correctly, they only remember it selectively, and they super impose modern standards of living onto it. Like if people from 2025 had to go back to 1955 and live the way 1955 people lived, they'd be traumatized, because they have no idea how polluted, loud, and unclean awful life in 1955 was. They just think 'cheap cost of living!'