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Re:

Are we heading towards an age where nobody really understands their inner life anymore because we’ve been trained to ignore it?

It may be we are, or are already in it. I don’t know if I see it as the result of training (aren’t we the trainers?), but I do think that there is something fundamental going on, fundamental changes going on with an individuals understanding of what meaning there is in being an individual, and their ability to perceive themselves with some reasonable correlation to others perception.

The whole idea of "me" being important is kinda new. Or at least, so many "me"s.

@odd lol, Vegas, baby!

[ edit ] Talk about out of touch with yourone's inner life, huh?

@odd This seems fundamental to why microblog feels the way it does. I have to think, just for a little teeny tiny moment, what do I actually want to say, and then say it.

In contrast to PLINK (yummy), PLINK (please love me), PLINK (yeah, I hate that too), PLINK...

Instead of ready-made verbs, which are labels for our interactions, which are then monetize-able, instead we are encouraged to create connections ourselves with good old fashion language.

@bkryer Just imagine the cost of a billion slide presentations that will be run this year! To modify the new sub-prime back flip nuanced sophisticated re-insurance option swap? And my fear is the software industry is doing the same thing. Real world waste stinks and takes up space. Information waste > null. Pay me.

[ edit ] It’s telling that I’ve have to go back and edit almost each of my replies. So emotional!

@jsonbecker I know.

[ edit ] This was in response to your accurate summary of our banking systems.

[ edit again ] This is what I was alluding too with "have the clients' money".

@jsonbecker These firms (not just fin) are keen on exercising their rights as persons. Well, they come with responsibilities kids! I mean, are they even citizens, these lay-about companies, losing users data, dumping chemicals into rivers? The problem is you can’t fire a company, nor arrest it.

@jsonbecker My man, all this tells me is that people who have it a lot better than most are having a hard time in the moment and letting people know about it. And I feel for them. And I don’t think the losses should be on their backs, not at all.

However, the folks who run these fin firms are doing in fact indeed very very much better than almost everyone, and continue to, although they continue to demonstrate a lack of competence, empathy, and moral responsibility. That’s fucked up. Once you say you’re a person I am expecting certain things and if I don’t get them, well...I do what everyone does.

@jsonbecker ...and I understand it could be really bad, and I feel for the folks effected, but the people running these firms are pros who have been in the industry for decades. The media environment’s speed is not a surprise for competent leadership, telling people you have their money when you do not have their money is a poor business strategy, and so on.

@jsonbecker You are right. It implies they should have known better. But we really need to wait and see if it remains pay-roll panic only. I think what influenced my emotional take on all of this was the first reporting I heard was some VC CEO talking about how bad it might be, as if it were a winter storm. I just don’t buy that shit anymore.

@jsonbecker I look at it this way.

The bigger an industry gets, the more room there is for low-competence or low-morality participants to exist in that industry. Enshittification is the technical term I think. It didn’t maybe have to be SVB, but it was bound to be someone.