RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117462813572878496

I still love tech with all my heart.
The anger and the hate that I have are directed towards humans, who have decided to turn tech into a user-hostile profit-making machine.

The anger we feel about "tech" is really about the discrepancy between what tech could be, inklings of which we have seen at the beginning of the Internet, and what it has become because of, for lack of a better word, capitalism.

So-called "tech bros" generally don't understand tech. They are not good at it. What they understand is exploitation, which they will hide behind flowery and tech-sounding buzzwords. What they do is exploit the labor of people who understand and love tech, in order to exploit everyone else.

I don't like it whenever people say, mostly jokingly, "computers were a mistake". No, computers were a good thing, and we can still do good with them. Do not let tech bros claim "computers". They are ours, not theirs.

@ska thank you this expresses so much of how I feel. (See also: astronomy and space exploration)

@ska The problem is that a good portion of these tech bros *do* know what they are doing, but they have one fatal flaw. That being that they value technology for the technology itself and not what it can do for people. They lose sight of the purpose of advancement and instead focus on the machine itself.

Forgetting to value those around you is a flaw that any person can get, it is just that tech being such a strong industry can make the biggest assholes louder than they would otherwise be.

@ska preach!

@justsoup @ska Rather, they value technology for what it can do to serve their own interests and not the best interest of people.
Any advancement just means new ways to profit...