For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
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Ban life.
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
(jacobin.com)
How about no. I've been wanting a pocketable "do everything" device since I got a Tiger Electronics PokeDex as a kid. Don't take this away from me.
How about better regulations on the obscene amount of data collection going on behind our backs? I can't count how many times I've come across even just websites that have a giant "accept all cookies" button, but in order to reject any, you have to dig through layers and layers of "settings". The most I've seen was 80+. And that's just websites.
I'm about to wipe my phone and go all-in on Calyx OS.
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Smartphones are fine, it's just a small computer that can make calls and is connected to the internet. You're using it wrong.
If people can't control themselves or their kids, it's not my problem.
The rise of fascists isn't your problem? Believe it or not, they'd never be this strong if it weren't for brainwashing the masses via smartphones.
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If you ban smartphones you better make a better replacement portable pc in the palm of my hand then.
Pocket PCs were a thing. I loved them.
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The rise of fascists isn't your problem? Believe it or not, they'd never be this strong if it weren't for brainwashing the masses via smartphones.
We had the same propaganda with books, radio, and TV. Should we ban those things too?
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Ban smartphones makes about as much sense as ban drugs or ban guns. It does nothing to address root causes and will do little to change anything for the better. Societal issues take more than “make X illegal”.
If USA banned guns, they might have a few less shootings.
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
(jacobin.com)
Is Jacobin just garbage or am I just seeing only garbage articles?
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
(jacobin.com)
Ehhhh no.
I can get behind "ban spying on me."
I can even get behind "ban social media, especially the kind that makes you sell yourself, though pseudononymous link aggregators are less the issue."
But "no more torrenting at work, no more reading digitally while pooping, no more encrypted chats, now have to carry a book, a camera, an mp3 player, my GBC, and a dumb phone, just to make up for the phone?"
No.
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
(jacobin.com)
Perhaps the actual answer is for people to learn self control.
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We had the same propaganda with books, radio, and TV. Should we ban those things too?
I'm just saying, that it is a problem and unless you're fascist yourself, it is also your problem. Banning phones is ridiculous and will never go through anyway.
By the way, the internet is a billion times more efficient in spreading propaganda than anything we've ever seen before. Something needs to be done. Banning phones is not the solution though.
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Perhaps the actual answer is for people to learn self control.
That will never work, nobody has discipline anymore
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No. Smartphones convicted the murderer of George Floyd. Smartphones have shown to the world the police brutality that happens at peaceful protests. Technology isn't inherently evil, it's how its used.
Smart phones are just pocket computers. Up to you how their used, good evil neutral it's all at ur fingertips.
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That will never work, nobody has discipline anymore
Ok buddy Marcus Aurelius
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Is Jacobin just garbage or am I just seeing only garbage articles?
Idk why don't you go directly to the site?
Jacobin
Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.
(jacobin.com)
Looks fine to me but they're preaching to the choir. You're certainly right that people have only been posting their shit takes here.
Like some kind of engagement or rage bait or something
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Ok buddy Marcus Aurelius
I'm just making commentary bud. Multiple times in the city I've seen people nearly get hit by busses because they cross the street nose deep in their phone without looking up. Some people can't come unglued for 10 seconds to look both ways before crossing a busy roadway in a bus plaza, it's kind of crazy!
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If USA banned guns, they might have a few less shootings.
Counting the civil war or no?
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Hey David, can you guess how many people are reading your article from a smartphone? Convenient, isn't it.
Want to complain about smartphones? Write a book... or something that can be published on fucking paper.
Bad take.
Journalists tell themselves they can make their ends meet by publishing a book pretty frequently.
Turns out that's rarely true. He seems to be mainly a podcaster though? Those lines can get blurry.
Also, the Jacobin is a magazine that still sells a printed version...
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There is no other economic system.
If lemmy.ml could read this, they'd be very upset.
No, they'd just laugh at the morons
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Greed isn't limited to any one economic system, I fear.
Seems more like a power thing but I guess that's greed too
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Why is the left so intent on becoming Luddites? What the fuck is this timeline?
I don't think it's "the left" as a whole but the literal Luddites would definitely have been considered part of it.
There's just going to be some overlap in the anti-capitalist Venn diagram on these issues.
