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Don't mistake the past for a utopia. Don't mistake the present for the limit of human civilization. (lemmy.world)
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[–] artifex@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The thing that I think kills so many of us is that there is an extremely small but extremely powerful contingent who are actively working to make the world shittier, and they have been quite effective at getting a lot of people to work against their best interests and drive that enshitification.

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

It reminds me of the joke about how predators evolved into smart predators and began not just hunting their prey, but also raising it in warmth and comfort, and then eating it to their fill if the need arose.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 7 points 1 day ago

As I like to remind - there's a good reason we have the cultural war, and not the class war.

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago