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What is something you can’t live without, technology wise that saves you time?

I have to say it’s my virtual assistant I’ve made. It saves me a lot of time with making reminders and such alarms for meetings or interviews, music etc.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Then again, if washing machines did not exist, society would have to adjust it's expectations. It's also kind of wasteful to wash clothes too often.

[–] partial_accumen 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Then again, if washing machines did not exist, society would have to adjust it’s expectations.

Wouldn't it simple revert to the class based system of cleanliness we had before?

  • the rich would still have clean clothes with intricate designs and patterns that would be laborious to clean, but they have staff that clean their clothes
  • the middle class would still have mostly clean cloths but would have much more simple to wash designs which are more durable, and a significant portion of household time would be spent on cleaning cloths
  • the poor wouldn't have clean cloths
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t it simple revert to the ~~class~~ wealth based system of cleanliness we had before?

The problems you mention here comes from wealth inequality. We still have those problems when wealth inequality exists - people just find other things to differentiate themselves from the poor. I.e. instead of cleanliness, it is wearing the right (read: expensive) brand of clothing. Or owning an expensive car, or an expensive phone or an expensive anything.

Cleanliness used to be an expensive thing so the wealthy used that to show off their wealth. Nowadays, it is other things.

The solution to this problem is not to make things cheaper (again, there will just be other ways to show off status/wealth), but to reduce wealth inequality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Basically the only point that needs to be made at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think that counts as a kind of societal expectation adjustment

Makes me a bit glum to think about how this concept applies to other areas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, every time a new timesaving invention becomes mainstream the “meta” of society adjusts and everything gets faster. And more chaotic and insane and crazy. Modern life is weird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, 'living within your means' works in both directions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That’s an interesting idea.. can you explain more?