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Insulting title. Sorry, but no thanks.


Genuine question: What do you find insulting about the title?

While it's not presenting anything new, the article does cover a number of important talking points in an accessible way.


> What do you find insulting about the title?

The title itself. Without reading the article, I can sense the "we are living in a stupid age" arrogant trope characteristic of the "winning" social classes.


That's an interesting assumption, thank you for clarifying.

I do know a few people who walk through the world with the "everyone else is an idiot" mindset. They're a total pain in the ass and neither of them are particularly successful or particularly happy, irrespective of their (very different) notional social class.

For my part, I look at a title like that and immediately think of the number of hours I've spent doomscrolling, trying to find value in cryptocurrencies, thinking about what impact AI has been having on education, trying to figure out where my life took its various difficult turns...

And I see it more as a criticism of the systems we've built (primarily big tech, but also the industrial complex in general) to create a world where the answer might be yes.




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