He was an angry, murderous misanthrope who used that philosophy to justify his irrational feelings and ultimately actions.
No, I don't think humanity was better off pre-industry, in the era of lordship and peasantry, at best. If you have a problem with your car, you fix the problem, you don't throw your arms up and say "cars are a disaster and should have never been invented!"
How are you going to fix your car when the part that needs replacing can only be replaced with a part from the original manufacturer matched to your ECU and they stopped making them?
Of course the part needs to integrate with the onboard computers so needs to be signed so it can’t be a used part. To prevent theft of course.
The replacement process requires special tools only provided to technicians at Brand Name dealers, or you’ll brick your ECU. Again to prevent theft you understand.
Now you’ll need to buy an entirely new vehicle because you can’t replace a throttle position sensor that costs $12 to produce.
If you think that’s far fetched… look into what John Deere does.
Capitalism is sprinting past the worst imaginings of the Unabomber.
That doesn’t mean his methods are justifiable or that industrialisation was a mistake but he was ahead of the curve in understanding where capitalists would seek to extract profit.
Your points are fine, but I think the OP you are replying to may have meant the car as the system, not the literal car within the system.
Now you can expand your comment to match their original intent with: how do we change the system when... For public safety you understand... to protect the children, you understand.... To. . .
And at that point you may reach a rather hopeless cross-road.
Only dumb firstworlders who haven't seen struggle not even from afar, or people tortured by the CIA could believe that the pre Industrial era was better lol, people plainly lived shorter, worse, lives with more painful deaths, without the hability to dream to do something grater for 99% of people.
In the modern world, in most countries, you can at least live a life, do stuff, even study, back then, for 99% people was "attempt not to starve or fall ill to disease and breed a lot of kids so some survive childhood."
Idk things don't seem that much different or better, humans are still making the same mistakes and are still the hateful little apes they were before they invented factories.
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 51 pts · 66d
He was an MK ultra victim.
catbum@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 66d
Realistically, do we think MK ever stopped?
dontfearthereaper123@ani.social · 15 pts · 66d
Yes they probably came up with a new better name for a new better project
derpgon@programming.dev · 2 pts · 65d
MK Ultra Plus?
eleefece@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d
MK Ultra Pro Max
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
E = MK + AI
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 66d
His conclusions were incredibly prescient. With each year they seem truer.
Carmakazi@piefed.social · 30 pts · 66d
He was an angry, murderous misanthrope who used that philosophy to justify his irrational feelings and ultimately actions.
No, I don't think humanity was better off pre-industry, in the era of lordship and peasantry, at best. If you have a problem with your car, you fix the problem, you don't throw your arms up and say "cars are a disaster and should have never been invented!"
Cypher@aussie.zone · 20 pts · 66d
How are you going to fix your car when the part that needs replacing can only be replaced with a part from the original manufacturer matched to your ECU and they stopped making them?
Of course the part needs to integrate with the onboard computers so needs to be signed so it can’t be a used part. To prevent theft of course.
The replacement process requires special tools only provided to technicians at Brand Name dealers, or you’ll brick your ECU. Again to prevent theft you understand.
Now you’ll need to buy an entirely new vehicle because you can’t replace a throttle position sensor that costs $12 to produce.
If you think that’s far fetched… look into what John Deere does.
Capitalism is sprinting past the worst imaginings of the Unabomber.
That doesn’t mean his methods are justifiable or that industrialisation was a mistake but he was ahead of the curve in understanding where capitalists would seek to extract profit.
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 66d
Your points are fine, but I think the OP you are replying to may have meant the car as the system, not the literal car within the system.
Now you can expand your comment to match their original intent with: how do we change the system when... For public safety you understand... to protect the children, you understand.... To. . .
And at that point you may reach a rather hopeless cross-road.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d
I think it's the crossroad that the Unabomber reached.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 65d
Okay okay, I get it, however that won't stop me from saying that cars are a disaster and should have never been invented.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 65d
Yeah, really, fuck cars.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
Trueee that
liuther9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 64d
Just fix your car lol
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 10 pts · 65d
Only dumb firstworlders who haven't seen struggle not even from afar, or people tortured by the CIA could believe that the pre Industrial era was better lol, people plainly lived shorter, worse, lives with more painful deaths, without the hability to dream to do something grater for 99% of people.
In the modern world, in most countries, you can at least live a life, do stuff, even study, back then, for 99% people was "attempt not to starve or fall ill to disease and breed a lot of kids so some survive childhood."
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 65d
Idk things don't seem that much different or better, humans are still making the same mistakes and are still the hateful little apes they were before they invented factories.
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 65d
The fuck is a lordnn?
Your hate and racism is showing. Nobody was talking about that shit.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 4 pts · 65d
racism towards whom?
ddplf@szmer.info · 2 pts · 65d
lord of de rings right now which is the modern day spinoff of the famed saga!
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 64d
indeed
https://dark-mountain.net/ted-kaczynski-and-why-he-matters/
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 66d
I fail to see how sending package bombs to some Professors and grad students, a computer store owner, was "fighting modern technology".
Did this 'genius' think some bombs would force people to stop thinking?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 66d
He wrote a rather infamous screed on the topic. The thing with the bombs was to force the newspapers to publish it.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 65d
Still though, dude had all kinds of valid targets, and went with ..those people..? Just odd.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 65d
He was insane.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d
Terrible bombs that one dude even made fun of after being injured by its misfire.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 64d
I mean, if you are dead you aren't thinking anymore
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 66d
Professors had an eye for talent.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 66d
well, you can't eat your cake and have it too
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 65d