This poster wasn’t claiming they were entitled. What kind of question is this?
replyOne imagines that quality of life ought to increase as technology evolves and the economy grows.
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reply> Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life
replyYes.
> Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life
replyOnly finite land available in high QoL areas such as Orange County California, New York City, or Hawaii, depending on your lifestyle.
You want to tell us who is allowed to live there?
Because sure as hell won’t fit all 345 million people in America with a desire for higher QoL
Driving everyone's QoL to be as bad as possible will lead to increasing enshittiffication in the entire market.
replyConsumers will be spoiled for choice between deeply mediocre options.
Besides, what's the point of adopting new technologies if it's not to increase the quality of life? If everyone just exists in service of the product development lifecycle, who and what are the products actually for?
In my experience, for every customer support agent that really wants to help people and cares about their problems, there are at least ten who don't even read what you wrote and answer with prefabricated blocks of text that have little to do with what you asked. If AI customer support actually tries to understand what I ask of it and help me, and there are still (motivated) humans available for the more tricky cases that AI can't handle, that might be a win...
reply> If everyone just exists in service of the product development lifecycle, who and what are the products actually for?
replyAnyone holding passive index ETFs in their brokerage / 401k / pension accounts.
People are definitely entitled to complaining about decreasing quality of life and not liking causes of such changes.
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