Capitalism certainly would have gotten there regardless, but there was more than just money pushing it along. Lust for power never fails to aid humanity in taking steps backwards
I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.
I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”
Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.
Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries
Well that’s when the bard makes a big scene giving the rogue just enough time to pick everyone’s pockets before the bard accuses the rogue of being a thief and they tumble down the alley in a fake fistfight and then sneak away at the last minute before they can be followed and everyone realizes they were robbed
All the UX people are tasked with cramming garbage AI and data collection into everything while everything else is “designed” by a bunch of overpaid engineers checking off boxes on “features” it should have regardless of where they end up or how usable they are
Yeah my old apartment had one shared old ass boiler in the basement for the whole building, like 35 units.
I would have to wake up super early for my job, and in the spring/summer when the boiler wasn’t on to heat the radiators, I would often be the one to kick start it by turning my hot water on.
It would take like 10 minutes to heat up so I’d just run the shower on low pressure and get a few more minutes of sleep
“You’ll own nothing and like it”