Technology in the form of computers, cell phones, and AI have been getting cheaper and better. Access to information is another one but that requires agency to take advantage of and get the benefits. This could be personal health, starting/running your own business, using ai to help create ads for your business, etc.

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8by3 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also "Access to information" is a funny one, most of the useful information is crowd sourced via direct sources like wikipedia and now indirect sources like LLM's regurgitating all human knowledge. Everything a company is selling you is getting worse, one can only assume the same will happen with AI, as soon as possible otherwise the AI companies won't be able to payback on the investment.

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bix6 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nobody cares that their TV is cheaper when it now smashes ads in your face while using your bandwidth to serve botnets and sends a heartbeat even when offline. Everything that actually matters, like good healthy food or youth sports, is increasingly expensive or shrinkflated.

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inigyou 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's because of rent. Rent keeps going up and this gets passed on to all people who buy things, live, or work, but it rarely flows the other way - rentiers spend all their rent acquiring more rent, not on productive things. And so you have this constant leeching away from the real economy.

	▲	bix6 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The rent seeking in this era really is off the charts

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globalnode 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> using ai to help create ads for your business

whenever i see this i drives me away, i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand. funniest thing i saw was an ai food ad and someone asked if the ai makes the food as well. the staff were actually miffed lol.

	▲	WalterBright 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand People have complained my stick figures look "unprofessional".