There was a time when my whole family had to wait a week for an episode of X-Files. You know, the show about aliens and paranormal creatures. The thing is, i think this impatient nature of the latest generations is a by product of modernization. If we get to that level where we start pointing fingers, we might find the capitalist world order at fault. We are at a point where even the entertainment now a days are sold in wholesale. So theres that.
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Do you know what drives capitalism? Consumption. Yes, it is at fault, but we as consumers can demand different and the supply changes.
With everything getting faster day by day, i don't see how the train will slow down ever.. Like today I saw a video on Youtube where linus (great tech wiz) unboxed an SSD card that is so fast that its i/o is at 29 gigs.
Now when midlevel consumers see these products, not this but similar ones, they think how it will make their life easier. But they dont care that they dont even need it. Thats how the demand increases. And then when the producers start scaling up and getting the price down where its still luxurious but more people can buy now, viola, now you have social conformity of a product that has little use for individual consumers.
It will be very hard for people to choose morale over cheap luxury.. And if that ever happens, we, humans will be the hardest working species on planet earth. Even surpassing ants. And thats quite something.
But not impossible. I don't think it even has to be so difficult, it is just that currently we choose shit and the consumption isn't just in goods, it is also politics and information. Buy shit, eat shit.
Yeah, thats some honest truth right there. When we can monetize anything, this is bound to happen.
Sometimes I think that the dystopian novels I read throughout my childhood, I might be living in one right about now.