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The reason people don't know how to do shit is that they don't have to do shit, because we are living under a mode of production centered around chaotic whimsy rather than human needs. If there's any possible way for a product/service to make a person lazier, it will be marketed and sold, and the news will talk all day about how this is what Freedom looks like
I loved the special but I wish it delved more into the innate toxicity of a system that brands dependence as liberty. We were a lot "freer" as a people when we had useful skills, and we became less free when we decided to outsource every ounce of effort to multinational mega-conglomerates who decide to shrinkwrap a peeled banana for a 700% upcharge