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Junkware Is Elder Abuse and a Menace to Society (techworkerscoalition.org)
8 points by Apocryphon on Jan 10, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



First, a caveat. Some communities could use more resources for protection than others. It's just a statistical truth.

That doesn't mean every member of that community needs protection.

People scrape their knees, right? Let's build real public social safety nets to manage those falls.

Because sometimes these calls for action have other purposes.

I can never win that argument. And hopefully I don't have to work making it ever again. I don't want to be that character, ok? As the media floods with cries for help over social media hypochrondia, I don't want to work myself into a corner.

The author talks about this with a line about agency. but it's the aggregate story flood that forms the consensus.

Some groups made their risk assessment on costs with some hidden values in the middle. They'll regulate social media and software. But humanity isn't sick and life continues.




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