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Disrupting technology, mobile phone versus PC/laptop etc

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nick65go:

--- Quote from: PDP-8 on July 14, 2020, 06:55:53 PM ---They don't care what's underneath the hood.
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The funny thing today is that most consumers are *still* heavily shielded and dissuaded from self-learning a simple environment, but shoved into ever-changing apps$.  The cost may be free now, but the cost, even if you factor in loss of privacy, is the loss to think on your own.
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I like your comment and I agree. Sometime I am annoyed when I ask a colleague a question and they replay: just google search it. F**k, brain washed. And the more someone is specialized then the more atrofiated he become. Just move them a little aside of their daily operation field, and they are useless. But, if I would be rude, I will say: the more dummy they are then the less competition is for me. Lucky me, I try to get out of competing.

 https://monevator.com/early-retirement-extreme-method/
 "I want people to take a step back and think about why they live as they do.
 Today we are twice as productive as in the 1950s, meaning we could live a 1950s lifestyle with better technology and a four-hour work day as a single income family.  So many life skills have been lost on the way to the mall to buy cheap junk and fake happiness. People own huge houses that they work so hard to pay off that they only have time to sleep in them or crash and watch TV. They drive expensive cars stop-and-go at 20mph to go to work, mainly to pay for the few hours they spend outside of work.
 It could be very different. I want to show how it is possible to live happily without spending a lot and without using a lot of resources.
 If the Earth was a pie, it is not growing bigger, and yet there are 120 million more people being added every year. We’ll pass seven billion within a few years. You can see that in greater competition – including wars – for resources, which is reflected in things like the price spikes for oil, metals, gold, and corn.
I think the point of diminishing returns was reached some time ago in terms of competition as a viable strategy to a better life. It is much more efficient to learn to live well on less than to waste time and energy competing for more."
 

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