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People Divulge Which Inventions Have Done More Harm Than Good For Society
As time trudges on, technology seems to advance at a lightning pace.
Way back when it began with simple tools like wheels and arrows. Then came irrigation and buildings.
After that, industrial machinery was a game changer, followed by computers and the internet.
But despite every generation’s rose-colored descriptions of the future, has it all been for good?
That’s what Redditor idc_aboutusernames wondered when they posted the question:
“What invention has done more harm than good?”
One you may have heard about.
“Imma go out on a limb and say the polygraph test” — throwrahousearrest
“Polygraph test. Even its inventor, John Larson, regrets his invention upon realizing how law enforcement would exploit the average citizen with it.” — Arctic_Cobra71
More than one person had planet Earth on the mind.
“Coffee pods. Even the creator deeply regrets his invention and the environmental impact it has had.” — Lasting_Wonder
“Individually packaged foods and snacks.”
“I work at a grocery store and it’s abhorrent to me how much crap there is and how well it sells. I mean, Christ, yesterday I stocked ‘Nutella to go’ packs that are… Nutella with pretzel sticks. They’re tiny and come in small plastic tubs.”
“Or those large bags of Reese’s cups that come individually wrapped, or these ridiculous 1oz bags of freeze dried fruit that we sell which are absurdly popular, especially for how relatively expensive they are at $3 a bag.”
“I get that plastic itself isn’t bad, but this is egregious to me, especially with how much my generation (I’m 34) has had overuse of landfills drilled into our skulls.” — drlavkian
One person offered up a surprising choice.
“There’s been really interesting discourse relating to the cotton gin. Prior to the cotton gin, many farmers did not consider cotton to be a worthwhile crop to grow, as it was so tough to process due to the seeds in cotton that the amount of slaves it would take just to process a small amount by hand would cost more than the cotton they would produce.”
“With the invention of the cotton gin, a few number of slaves could process essentially as much cotton as you could produce.”
“This skyrocketed demand for slaves in the Americas, and while slavery obviously had existed for quite some time in America, the invention of the cotton gin doubled the amount of slaves in 10 years, and multiplied fivefold by 1850.”
“This invention propelled the chattel slavery of the South to new heights, you could make the argument its invention profoundly compounded all racial issues in America since its inception.” — grahamster00
This one may have been written at work.
“40 hour work week. Who decided you need to work this much in order to make enough money to even be considered worthy of survival?”
“I could understand that regularly having people commit to 40 hours of hard work thats equally distributed would hypothetically improve efficiency and push us toward a better future, but holy fu** is it not working.”
“Mental health issues, goverment dependency, and poverty shouldnt be an issue for the employed. The current wage disparity between minimum wage and livable wage is a joke.” — codeblue94
Recent inventions were on the chopping block too.
“Airbnb. Started as an opportunity for people to rent out a spare room and meet travellers. Has morphed into a short-term rental platform where wealthy second home owners let entire homes or apartments at the expense of local communities.”
“Residents in once peaceful neighbourhoods are forced to endure all the impacts that come with living next to makeshift unregulated hotels and group accommodation.”
“Loud parties any night of the week, a steady stream of strangers in apartment blocks or residential streets, parking congestion, masses of rubbish, security issues, loss of community all become commonplace.”
“Long-term rentals dry up because Airbnb is more lucrative and local businesses, in some cases even local hospitals, can’t find staff as they have nowhere to live. Long-term locals find themselves kicked out of their rentals to make way for another more lucrative Airbnb.”
“They are left with nowhere to go as other long-term rentals have gone the same way and it’s pushed prices up so much that buying a property is no longer an option.”
“Residential neighbourhoods become a smattering of hotels without the volunteers and local people that once gave the place the sense of community that attracted many visitors to the area in the first place.”
“Most Airbnb users wouldn’t be aware of the detrimental impacts Airbnb can have for local communities.” — Overall-Reception-59
One Redditor went after the mundane.
“Soft close toilet seats. Either all toilets should have them or none should. The current roulette is too stressful.” — 476c796e
“Those plastic containers that are like crimp plastic stitch welded around the entire edge and it’s super thick plastic that will slice your sh** open.” — RacingboomThePleb
Some things are just too good to be true.
“Slot Machines. Once you get a taste of winning some money back, it gets eaten up in no time. You might think you can beat the system, but that’s how they suck you in and take you for all you are worth.”
“These things are rigged to payout when a lot of money has been fed into them so you have to be extremely lucky to get the big jackpot.” — Missrcl
A few were clarified within the past year.
“Data mining and ad delivery services disguised as social media.” — sev1nk
“Facebook. It was a Pandora’s box, but we didn’t realize it until a decade later.” — mrsal511
“The 24-hour news cycle” — BSH72
And there are no shortage right here on the internet.
“Pop-up ads. Think of all the malware and viruses that people have fallen victim to because of pop-up ads, plus they are just annoying. Even the inventor of them apologized for creating them.” — -eDgAR-
“Targeted ads and internet trackers. These have done a lot of bad and practically no good.” — Anzuweeb
Finally, do not forget about the lungs.
“Cigarettes. Those things ruined my life. I don’t smoke them anymore and have had to resource to other things. Peer pressure and wanting to fit in is an a**hole” — Sam_in_peas
“Asbestos. Now people are getting rid of it” — sc4rii
It’s a list that might make you stop and look around the next time something new and exciting comes out.
People Discuss the Statement, “A Lot of People Only Care About a Cause When It’s Trendy”
I’d like to believe that people support causes because they believe in helping folks out.
But, as I’m sure you already know, we live in a social-media-obsessed world where image is everything for some people.
And sometimes people latch onto the popular causes of the day because of how they think it will make them look…but how widespread is that phenomenon?
AskReddit users talked about whether or not most people only care about causes when they become trendy.
Let’s see what they had to say.
1. What’s up with that?
“Hence why literal g**ocides have been going on in China for years now and yet most people in my day-to-day life have no idea whatsoever.
Even when I tell them, they barely give it more than a seconds thought because IT ISN’T TRENDY and there’s nothing for them to gain socially by pretending to care.
But you better believe they’re radical followers of whatever Tik-Tok and their television screen is pushing at the moment.
Also, where are all of those young people who were suddenly civil-rights revolutionaries last summer? The trend d**d down and I haven’t seen them post anything about any of that ever since… It’s back to non-stop selfies and photos of Starbucks coffee.
What’s up with that?”
2. Inauthentic.
“This is why I didn’t do the ‘black out’ social media posting last year. I didn’t want to inauthentically hop on a trend.
I always sign petitions/ signal boost / etc any good cause I see, but I wasn’t going to intensively commit to something I wasn’t prepared to keep up when it comes to social media. It felt fake to do so.
I keep learning and growing as we all do, but that isn’t gonna take the sum of one summer when literally everyone else is talking about it for the same length of time.”
3. A lot of issues out there.
“Part of the issue is that there are so many issues that are important. Enough of us are working most of the time and can barely manage ourselves that even if we care about something, we don’t have time to be active, without potentially putting our own welfare at risk.
When “cause” trends go around, especially if it’s not your primary concern (for example maybe you’re more of an animal rights activists or environmentalist) posting a black square is like the easiest lift for people to say, yeah I’m solidarity.”
4. All support is good.
“Any form of support is good. Whether monetary or otherwise, just showing solidarity is important.
To me, that’s what the black square thing was about, showing the people on the street and, more importantly the white supremacists that are actively combatting that movement in that specific scenario, that the public is on their side.”
5. A hot take.
“I don’t care about social issues.
I know, I know. I should care about everyone and everything. I just can’t mentally handle it.
Sorry no matter how manipulative your language is I can only physically care about a certain amount of issues.
I know I am not cool and trendy, but I’m fine with that. Most people who support every social issue going on in the world tend to be miserable.”
6. Some perspective.
“At a certain point, there’s just so much s**t that is and has always been going on in the world so to assert that you have to care about all of it all the time is, I think, pretty naive.
You can’t only care about things that affect you but at the same time those things should be like 90% of your focus. You’re just begging for a poor mental state in exchange for not really being able to change much.
My personal view is that the ones out there railing about X Issue tend to be young people from wealthy families who haven’t had much adversity of their own to deal with but just want some instance of adversity to get emotionally invested in.”
7. The man in the mirror.
“It is much more effective to just be a better person than yesterday and help everyone around you whenever you can.
No need to find and stay 100% updated on all the highlighted issues of the society on the internet and exhaust your brain and energy on learning manipulative stuff and propagandas of big corporation’s/leaders to make some more bucks or gain some more control/power, while the homeless near you starves for the 2nd day.
The only thing that people should feel the need to change is the man in the mirror.”
8. Overwhelming.
“I don’t think it’s fair how we’re expected to care about everything.
I think if every person cared about one cause then that would be enough, instead of expecting people to advocate for every single group.”
9. Woke.
“Welcome to the 21st century my friend , where people only care about something when it benefits them in some way or are socially pressured into thinking they need to care about something when they really don’t .
Honestly pretty much everyone ( obviously an exaggeration because there a few who genuinely care about the cause ) only care about something when it’s popular to support it , care or h**e on it for some reason or another .
And they couldn’t care less to get to the root of these issues or why they even exist in the first place , because all they care about is looking morally superior/woke or whatever and riding on their moral high horse while looking down on others , as if they’re so superior.”
10. Hashtag activism.
“Hashtag activism gives the individual a dopamine rush with minimal effort.
Basically it’s just a drug hit of self-righteous feel good bullc**p.”
11. Wouldn’t that be nice?
“There are many world problems people don’t talk about. I wish caring about all injustice and pain in the world was trendy so more people could be informed.”
12. Isn’t helping.
“It is called virtue signalling. Celebrities do this all of the time.
Wokeness is also the same thing and hurts certain campaigns rather than helping them.”
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What Small Ways Has Society Progressed in the Last 20 Years? Here’s How People Responded.
You blink and you’ll miss it.
An older gentleman told me that when I graduated from high school. I kind of shrugged off his words of wisdom but it turns out he was right…
And things are always moving forward, which is good news for all of us here on planet Earth.
In what small ways has society progressed in the last two decades?
AskReddit users shared their thoughts.
1. That’s nice.
“My grandfather has been blind for forty years.
He says people are way more friendly than they used to be, especially younger people are eager to help.”
2. Much more aware.
“I think the majority of the world knows a lot more about other cultures and countries.
Thanks to the internet and learning facilities and the vast possibilities of travelling, people can really get into these topics if they want to.”
3. Progress.
“Infant mortality rate in Africa is now the same as it was in Europe in the 1970s.
Absolutely amazing progress.”
4. Knowledge is power.
“Think about the public’s access to information.
Just Wikipedia is equivalent to thousands of dollars of encyclopedias and almanacs in the 1990s.
And it’s way more valuable than that because it’s constantly being updated.”
5. A good thing.
“The rapid skill increase across all forms of gaming/sports, art, leisure activities, etc.
The internet really has allowed niche-activity folks to learn the most effective practices collectively, as opposed to independent and un-structured learning.
Hobbyists can (and are) now able to quickly get really good at nearly everything, at a ridiculous rate. Poker, paintball, video editing, computer games, etc…. doesn’t matter what it is, it’s easier now to jump from “beginner” to “pretty good” in nearly anything.”
6. You can learn anything!
“The intermet has made it easier to learn almost anything.
When something in my house/car breaks or needs upgraded, I can generally diagnose it with Google and then watch how-to videos on youtube to decide if I should do it myself or just save time and contact a professional to complete the repair.”
7. Click it or ticket.
“Stressing the importance of seat belts and helmets.
Old TV shows commonly depict no helmets and seatbelts.”
8. The little things.
“I took my grandparents to my Grandpa’s sister’s funeral, on the drive back home I had to buy a Pepsi and a coffee because I was tired.
I finished the can of Pepsi, and put the can in the cup holder.
Grandpa said “you know son, 10 years ago that would have went right out the window.””
9. More opportunities.
“Giving more opportunities to people with disabilities.
And this doesn’t mean just work either, but designing more building to universal design so that people with disabilities can access more spaces unassisted.
It’s really great!”
10. You see it less and less.
“Way fewer people smoke these days.
Honestly, in my extended family it’s maybe only one of my distant cousins.”
11. No more stigma.
“Wearing glasses has all but lost the negative stereotypes surrounding it.
They often used to make kids suffer through school unable to see.”
12. Normalizing.
“We’re normalizing openly discussing miscarriages. It use to be uncouth to discuss in social settings and was more something that couples had to suffer silently to themselves.
After recently experiencing one, the outpouring of support has been amazing and such a pillar of support for us through this tough time. We were thankful to have others to mourn with us.”
13. Preservation.
“In my country several efforts have been made to save our only remaining native indigenous language from being extinct.
A decade ago less than 1,000 people could speak it, now I believe the number is closer to 10,000.”
How about you?
What progress do you think we’ve made in the last two decades?
Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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