• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?

    When people with a whole fucking lot of money decided they wanted to make a whole fucking lot more money by selling this snake oil to the uncritical, uninformed masses.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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      3 days ago

      So … thousands of years ago? (C.f. “organized religion” for reference.)