You think that’s unfair? Guess what, so do I, but justice is a human concept. We live in an insouciant universe that cares nothing for our ideals unless we force them into existence.
Are you seriously going to act so high and mighty? You expected creatives to predict as a bloc that over a decade later they would be trapped by the platform that was helping them reach their audience? The site that literally everyone they knew was getting on?
I mean come on you have to have something similar in your life. Do you use android/google software and services? Anything apple? There has to be something you have done or currently do you can use as an anchoring point for even a dash of humility here.
Yes, I expected creatives to figure out that platforms like Facebook were the second coming of America Online. I mean, I saw it coming and you’ve seen how stupid I am.
Justice is only one (overly simplistic) way of organising humans. It exists to discourage behaviour that harms others, but in my opinion it is way better to encourage people to do things for the better instead. Humans are cooperative creatures and a social order based entirely on tension is extremely unproductive.
And don’t get me wrong, a lot of things in society deserve to be criticised and discouraged. But dealing in absolutes and assigning blame to an entire group of people is almost always overly simplistic and won’t get you anywhere.
The shitheads who run the sites would be nothing and have nothing without the millions or billions of people contributing trillions of hours of unpaid labor to make these sites popular destinations on the internet. Just as this site would be nothing if none of us could be bothered to participate.
All these people are under the whims of the shitheads; these sites are intentionally manipulative, so realistically most don’t have a choice. The billionaires, however, do.
I am large, I contain multitudes, I can believe six impossible things before breakfast, and I can entertain multiple contradictory ideas at the same time.
You think that’s unfair? Guess what, so do I, but justice is a human concept. We live in an insouciant universe that cares nothing for our ideals unless we force them into existence.
Are you seriously going to act so high and mighty? You expected creatives to predict as a bloc that over a decade later they would be trapped by the platform that was helping them reach their audience? The site that literally everyone they knew was getting on?
I mean come on you have to have something similar in your life. Do you use android/google software and services? Anything apple? There has to be something you have done or currently do you can use as an anchoring point for even a dash of humility here.
Yes, I expected creatives to figure out that platforms like Facebook were the second coming of America Online. I mean, I saw it coming and you’ve seen how stupid I am.
“Hindsight is 2020“ was coined for people like you
“Creatives” are idiots then.
Creatives post they’re stuff anywhere and everywhere. It’s a lot of work. They are just trying to get by like the rest of us.
Justice is only one (overly simplistic) way of organising humans. It exists to discourage behaviour that harms others, but in my opinion it is way better to encourage people to do things for the better instead. Humans are cooperative creatures and a social order based entirely on tension is extremely unproductive.
And don’t get me wrong, a lot of things in society deserve to be criticised and discouraged. But dealing in absolutes and assigning blame to an entire group of people is almost always overly simplistic and won’t get you anywhere.
It’s unfair for to happen
This does not make what happened those people’s fault
Its the fault of the shitheads who run the sites and actually make those decisions
The shitheads who run the sites would be nothing and have nothing without the millions or billions of people contributing trillions of hours of unpaid labor to make these sites popular destinations on the internet. Just as this site would be nothing if none of us could be bothered to participate.
We are complicit. This is our fault.
All these people are under the whims of the shitheads; these sites are intentionally manipulative, so realistically most don’t have a choice. The billionaires, however, do.
Pick one.
I am large, I contain multitudes, I can believe six impossible things before breakfast, and I can entertain multiple contradictory ideas at the same time.