Comment on Anon hates smartphones

• redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I get what you’re saying but, respectfully, I think you’re incorrect. The field of science is not about capitalism but the goal of understanding everything around you. Aqueducts were not the result of capitalism. Russia won the space race. Innovations happen regardless. Capitalism drives innovation in specific directions.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also id argue that the creation of the smartphone is the result of market forces, which arent unique to and predate Capitalism by millenia. The bronze age collapse happened largely due to the collapse of the grand trade networks and markets that birthed the bronze age, most bronze age societies predate currency as we understand it outright.

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    • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everything that happened before capitalism happened at an extremely slow pace. We might have smart phones without capitalism and therefore the industrial revolution… but how long? Centuries? Another millenia?

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The reason things happened at a slow pace wasnt because capitalism sped it up by a particular amount, its because human knowledge builds on itself. Plus capitalism was borne from the enlightenment which was when a shit tonne of ideas that made the scientific revolution possible came to be.

        Capitalism just happened to be the major economic ideology that was gaining favor, id actually argue that social liberalism and Republicanism was the major factor for innovation on a political level.

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• nomous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m saying without the greed of capitalism we wouldn’t have phones to swap out parts.

  This might be a hot take but I’m not sure we all need a phone in our pocket or that it’s inherently a good thing.

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