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alexfromapex on May 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

You are conflating technology improving lives, which it usually does as time advances, with society improving. Society has arguably gotten worse, as things have just become more passively aggressive than outright aggressive as they were in the past.

onlyrealcuzzo on May 17, 2023 [–]

So you're saying it's worse that it's socially acceptable now for people to talk behind your back instead of enslave you?

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