• @Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Yes, but by other companies. Those problems are not created intentionally in order to create and exploit a market, they’re just consequences of those other companies doing business. Pretty much the only example of companies creating problems so that they can sell solutions I can think of is free-to-play games (e.g. make game excessively grindy on purpose to sell boosters). Some of that scummy monetization is now creeping into real-world products, with things such as subscription-based heated seats that are installed in your car regardless but disabled unless you pay up, but the vast majority of products and services on the market address problems that were not created by their manufacturers/providers.

    • FaceDeer
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      -810 months ago

      Go back to living in a cave and then count the number of problems you have left, I bet there will be tons.

      • @RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
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        510 months ago

        Don’t worry, in a few decades that’s where we’ll all be, you included. Assuming we survive the corporate-induced famines, anyway.

        • Gadg8eer
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          110 months ago

          Then why not just kill yourself now? Rhetorical question, my point is fight to live or give up now