I think you’re right that stock trading has enabled a lot of bad and perhaps shouldn’t have been allowed. At least on a large scale beyond a single town or county. Paper certificates for money may have been a bad idea too. Even the use of a common currency like gold may have been a net negative. I think a barter system has positives over a common currency in that it requires people to work together and form communities.
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We’ve seen it many times. TV, teflon, social media, cars, AI…
I think they will give us the cancer cure which may even be cheap, but it will come with lots of other downsides for society and your individual physical and mental health. Technology is like black magic that solves the problem you asked it to but gives you a thousand new issues that end up being worse than the original situation.
Genetic engineering every little detail could become dirty cheap, but it will still be terrible for humanity because it will remove diversity, we’d be messing with forces we don’t understand that could lead to diseases or greater population-wide susceptibilities and the government would also like to have its say on how your baby is made so that they will be a good little order follower
As well as the military contractors, insurance companies, big food, big media, big think tanks and consultancy, etc
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Colorado lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level
121·2 days agoMaybe next they’ll make you prove you’re over 18 to buy a computer at the store. Maybe put them behinds safety glass too since they’re so dangerous. Or put them on the top shelf where kids can’t reach.
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memes@lemmy.world•Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way
31·2 days agoBut does it have Old Zealand?
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Good News Everyone@piefed.social•postmarketOS updates their AI policy to forbid using or promoting generative AI
31·2 days agoNot to mention much more ethical too!
Yeah this sounds awful. Your username is apt for this. Reason #5563 to hate AI.

The “Cancel ChatGPT movement” doesn’t appear to be mentioned in the article, but other outlets say hashtags like #CancelChatGPT are trending on X.