My life, my few friends’ lives, my family members’ lives, shit just sucks all around. I can’t remember the last time I went somewhere for lunch and paid less than ten dollars. God, remember when fast food used to be the cheap option with somewhat of a reputation for being poor people food? I sure as hell do because that was like 10 years ago (in my experience at least). It’s so incredibly, incredibly fucking ominous to see that all the cashiers are gone and have been replaced by kiosks.

And part of me understands that this is just the natural progression of technology or whatever the fuck, but there are days where I go without talking to someone in real life. The same shit is happening at pharmacies, grocery stores, even Godamn doctors offices. Am I just being too glass half empty? Every part of this seems like a living nightmare and it just continues to get worse

Every time I go to one of the aforementioned establishments, they’ve added another camera or put another item behind a paywall. This just seems to me like brick and mortar stores are becoming high security centers in an effort to push everyone to purchase online.

I don’t think the downstream effects need to be mentioned here. Gee wonder why everyone is hyper-individualistic

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    And part of me understands that this is just the natural progression of technology or whatever the fuck, but there are days where I go without talking to someone in real life. The same shit is happening at pharmacies, grocery stores, even Godamn doctors offices.

    Yeah, I was just thinking about this the other day, probably makes sound like a ”phone bad” boomer, but I really hate how everything is tied to smartphones and/or the internet now. Some things are more convenient for sure, but on the flip side even my gym changed to a system where you have to scan a QR code with a phone to get in.

    I really do think things were better when you could only get online whenever you were at a computer, things really went downhill when you could do it at any time. I guess if you really like social media you’re happy about being able to access it at any time, but I hate social media and have essentially no presence there. I really don’t want to give those bloodsucking corporations any more of my info, especially knowing that most of them are US based and I don’t want to give the US government anything if I can help it.