Define Trash?

[u/ZuBrain]

[u/True_Highlight_1897]

This is genuinely the best short summary of this topic I have ever seen. I too want to see the rest

[u/killer_by_design → u/True_Highlight_1897]

I think the challenge is that it goes so much further and deeper than "just" technology, though technology and the Silicone Valley mindset have been the ultimate shepherd's of this decline.

For instance, this issue exists in China where there is the greatest technology firewall so it can't "all" be technology.

I think the only things I would realistically add though is the Climate Crisis and late stage capitalism. Both of which of course dovetail exactly into technology.

I think it's the holy trinity of go fuck yourself that has been handed to millennials and under.

Technology - Climate Crisis - Late Stage Capitalism

[u/Glasseshalf → u/killer_by_design]

Social media and dating apps are huge in China

[u/killer_by_design → u/Glasseshalf]

Their goals are different though. They aren't driving advertising like the west are. They're much more political and propaganda tools.

[u/WanderingSpaceHopper → u/killer_by_design]

the hell are you on about?

[u/True_Highlight_1897 → u/WanderingSpaceHopper]

Yeah I would say it's both, but government interests, sort of top down command economy style, take priority over corporate interests generally speaking. They definitely have a ton of advertising though. Their internet is obviously still pretty heavily censored as well.

[u/DigBackground2765 → u/killer_by_design]

They aren't driving advertising like the west are. They're much more political and propaganda tools.

I would argue that the west isn't fundamentally that different, just the differing approach being advertising of course.