vedloseper

Skillfulness to me implies giving a crap about the world you share with others. Skilled, in comparison, is a consolation price.

> One of the most repulsing stories that I got from Soviet Union from my grandparents was about excellent engineers being on the same pay scale with manual labour workers.

That's the most repulsing? Nothing about children and old people being murdered en masse? See above, more skillful grandparents would have told wholly different stories.

I think individual death is necessary for the greater of tapestry of life to flourish and to be something worth being involved. Most great people I ever knew or read seem to share this "live and let live" attitude. In contrast, the individuals who really really want to live forever are the ones that bore me to death after 5 minutes.

Computers and telecommunications had quite the impact, but they warped the world much less than the perspectives of some people in it.

There's still worlds between liking to fuck and using each other like toys. Though consumerist attitudes may not be new, see e.g. that Latin dude talking about how the mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

People also have been rejecting that since time immemorial, so the strength of your argument just barely suffices to eat itself.

There's also many multipliers that apply to the web. Every page can be loaded by millions or billions of people, more than once, and usually sharing resources with other tabs. It all adds up quite quickly. It's like saying gum wrappers don't matter, while there's a mountains of garbage growing in the background; maybe not enough people care, but it still matters even though they don't care.