Ehhhh no.
I can get behind “ban spying on me.”
I can even get behind “ban social media, especially the kind that makes you sell yourself, though pseudononymous link aggregators are less the issue.”
But “no more torrenting at work, no more reading digitally while pooping, no more encrypted chats, now have to carry a book, a camera, an mp3 player, my GBC, and a dumb phone, just to make up for the phone?”
No.
Perhaps the actual answer is for people to learn self control.
That will never work, nobody has discipline anymore
Ok buddy Marcus Aurelius
I’m just making commentary bud. Multiple times in the city I’ve seen people nearly get hit by busses because they cross the street nose deep in their phone without looking up. Some people can’t come unglued for 10 seconds to look both ways before crossing a busy roadway in a bus plaza, it’s kind of crazy!
No. Smartphones convicted the murderer of George Floyd. Smartphones have shown to the world the police brutality that happens at peaceful protests. Technology isn’t inherently evil, it’s how its used.
Smart phones are just pocket computers. Up to you how their used, good evil neutral it’s all at ur fingertips.
How about no. I’ve been wanting a pocketable “do everything” device since I got a Tiger Electronics PokeDex as a kid. Don’t take this away from me.
How about better regulations on the obscene amount of data collection going on behind our backs? I can’t count how many times I’ve come across even just websites that have a giant “accept all cookies” button, but in order to reject any, you have to dig through layers and layers of “settings”. The most I’ve seen was 80+. And that’s just websites.
I’m about to wipe my phone and go all-in on Calyx OS.
Ban social media and advertising/marketing. Smart phones are just a small computer.
smartphones are one of rhe hundreds o things that would probably be just fine and good if it weren’t for capitalism
Idk, Smartphones under Feudalism can be just as bad, if not worse.
Greed isn’t limited to any one economic system, I fear.
There is no other economic system.
And “greed” isn’t really the problem with capitalism. It’s more about the violent deprivation of human needs in order to exploit people for the extreme privilege of a tiny minority. Etc.
There is no other economic system.
If lemmy.ml could read this, they’d be very upset.
No, they’d just laugh at the morons
Seems more like a power thing but I guess that’s greed too
classic lemmy
The problem is with planned obsolescence and capitalist drive to always make more. The device itself is not inherently bad, it’s a glorified calculator.
I’m pretty far down the luddite/makhaevist wormhole… But this is just a garbage idea.
Me who has a disability which prevents me from speaking and hearing people and renders me bedridden.
“Okay, guess I’ll die then”
Author admits smartphones are ubiquitous, and doesn’t at all consider, in a hypothetical situation where everyone unanimously agreed to stop using them, where all this e-waste will go?
Also, how do you disillusion the millions of people that use them religiously?
I get the sentiment, but only a significant technologically literate society would really appreciate the need for greater control over their devices and actually possess the skills needed to modify and configure them.
Current smart phones will become e-waste either way. On that front, the benefit would be forcing all manufacturers to stop creating more e-waste for the future.
Author admits smartphones are ubiquitous, and doesn’t at all consider, in a hypothetical situation where everyone unanimously agreed to stop using them, where all this e-waste will go?
Pretty much every single smartphone in use right now will be ewaste 20 years from now, and most of them will be within 10. So we have that disposal problem already regardless. Hypothetically, if everyone were to get rid of their phones, we’d at least stop creating even more future ewaste.
Hey David, can you guess how many people are reading your article from a smartphone? Convenient, isn’t it.
Want to complain about smartphones? Write a book… or something that can be published on fucking paper.
Bad take.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moscrop
Journalists tell themselves they can make their ends meet by publishing a book pretty frequently.
Turns out that’s rarely true. He seems to be mainly a podcaster though? Those lines can get blurry.
Also, the Jacobin is a magazine that still sells a printed version…
So, can you guess which percentage of people prefer using an smartphone to read these kind of anti smartphone articles? Do you see the issue? The irony?
This is just trash ragebait dude.
Is Jacobin just garbage or am I just seeing only garbage articles?
Idk why don’t you go directly to the site?
Looks fine to me but they’re preaching to the choir. You’re certainly right that people have only been posting their shit takes here.
Like some kind of engagement or rage bait or something
And then what? Go back to the stone age?
Kids waiting to get picked at school and their parents have emergency, how are they gonna inform the others to get picked up? Are they gonna just let that kid suck it up and wait for hours, just like the good old times?
What? Corded phones exist, and most schools and offices have at least one in each room. Dumb phones exist. Pagers exist.
Smart phones are not the only singular solution for easy, quick contact.
The stone age = any time before 2005 apparently 🙄
1-800-collect
so much bullshit
Why is the left so intent on becoming Luddites? What the fuck is this timeline?
I don’t think it’s “the left” as a whole but the literal Luddites would definitely have been considered part of it.
There’s just going to be some overlap in the anti-capitalist Venn diagram on these issues.
Because luddism is good. But this article aint it.
No it isn’t. Technology is the evolutionary adaptation of humanity. It would be like a tiger cutting off its claws, or a rabbit breaking its own legs.
This left wing Luddite attitude is simply fueled by fucking tribalism because it wasn’t really anywhere to be found until the tech bros turned republican.
