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Doom, Slop, Maxxing & Pilled. Do the suffixes & prefixes we use to describe modern life tell us something about our future?

I subscribe to way too many technology newsletters, however, the gems among them are better than anything you come across in regular mass media. So I persevere. This article is an interesting example of that.

It's an opinion piece. An ex-Silicon Valley person who is now living in Europe is reflecting on the huge gap between Silicon Valley and everybody else, and in particular, Generation Z and Millennials versus Silicon Valley in Western societies.

Why do I find it so interesting? Because I suspect the sentiment that he is describing and mining here is going to become really predominant for everybody in the 2030s. Also, there is a real irony to me here. Silicon Valley has all the power, or so it thinks it does, but if nobody shares your values or vision, does it matter in the end, if you are the one who changed technology? In the long run, it won't be your values or vision that actually changes the world. It will be all the people reacting against it.

Doom, Slop, Maxxing & Pilled. Do the suffixes & prefixes we use to describe modern life tell us something about our future?https://www.8ball.report/p/doomspending-and-europoor-summerOpen linkView original on futurology.today
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"So much wealth and yet no idea how to live.” I've always said money is wasted on the rich.... You have to have actually had some struggle to understand how to use your money

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sh.itjust.works

I agree with you, but confess that I chuckled a little bit as I encountered a 'lol' in the middle of your comment - a bit of internet slang that Millenials and Gen Z have slipstreamed into their writing.

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So you're using a lazy shortcut, condensing language into a devolved, less accurate form?

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lemmy.ca

Just stop spelling 'maxing' with two Xes. You're making teachers cringe.

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It tells us that 4chan is still alive and well and able to drive trends

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