The Perpetual Consumer Wheel
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6 years ago in #technology by drakos (70)
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Of course wer stuck on a wheel, how could we not be. Same corporate people that set the trends make those gadgets.
When you have the power to set trends, affect buying habits, its really not that hard to put the hamster in the wheel.
For every human being the quality of life is really different because every human being is individual and every individual have his/her own set of driving forces to make their life better and this phase of betterment is different from person to person, and in my opinion the greatest technologists was our ancestors because they have explored everything and through the cycle of Exploration - Research - Implementation - Failure, this way they reached to the success step by step so that's why today we human beings are on this current position.
We expand our needs time to time and sometimes we never work towards to achieve needs or we lack the opportunities to achieve that needs, so in this phase of scarcity human being should be Psychologically strong because to attain the cycle of success and possession an individual should know how to face the phase of success and phase of adversity too.
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So much quality on this article. I love this line
Come to think of it it's quite true, we never get satisfied with any gadget. Cause we always know there is another one better and crave to get that one. Well just like you said Blame it on Dopamine ;)
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Dopamine is a big trouble maker 😆
Apparently, lol
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And then there are those of us "late adopters" that only buy any technology when it has gotten so ubiquitous that life is impeded without it. I had a "dumb phone" until just a year ago, when I was asked to do a day of workshops and speeches at an important conference and needed some features of a smart phone. To this day, unless I'm traveling, I barely turn the thing on. I have never owned a TV, but did have CDs that I just got rid of when I sold my house. I either recorded to Mp3 or just let it go. What will replace Mp3? Well hopefully nothing soon.
Simply, different file formats will replace .mp3.
As long as there's a demand for QUALITY over any intensive examination of the content, there'll be "improvements" engineered as solutions. It's not unjustifiable, it's simply that it's seldom necessary those improvements even exist, given that the relative amount of high-quality content doesn't improve quantitatively, especially content that CAN'T be distributed without those improvements.
Truly great music, great visual art, etc. will ALWAYS be made, the overwhelming sea of what is NOT pounding true quality through the noise floor is the impediment.
Arguably, we might be able to generate the kind of mass culture we have without high-speed protocols using different network architectures (they've been around since the 1940s with the advent of digital computing).
Well said Drakos.
The consumer wheel is so addictive. We all want more stuff but does it make us more happy? Hard to say.
At least with video content delivered digitally now we do not have to rebuy as much. Although once 8k TVs come at a good price will need to rebuy 8K based video hah.
I have done fairly well resisting the yearly upgrade cycle waiting as long as possible. I like having funds available to travel and other intangible things.
Well I think that technology and human development go hand in hand, many of us are lucky to have the monetary resource to update our things I think it is necessary to go with technological development if we fall behind, an example the market of cryptocurrencies will be the future of money in the world here in venezuela only 20% of the population knows that market, my son and I, we are always aware of it and how it has served us, to face the crisis that my country has, such is the case of working in steemit,
like the world is evolving, that's why laws should be changing to improve, and lawyers updating, I believe that everything in life works in that way, the evolution of life we could call it, nature science, technology, education, culture etc etc
It is normal that our needs are fulfilled to some extent, being compulsive consumers of the innovative! We will always want to have the best, try the best including food or anything else that calls our attention, so when we are accustomed to that quality and for some reason decreases or such service degraded its quality we see the need to Find something to replace it that is much better than what we had before
Its can be creepy sometimes..
Bearing in mind the relationships of the consumer and the goods it.
Variations in quality of good makes it a variable of vhoices with other homo-satisfactory goods.
I will never trade quality with quantity.
Thats just my view.
Nice post
You're right @drakos
the ambitions of people make time change, but how far do we carry that?
We have improved a lot in many aspects, but we have also done so much damage at our pace! It is not wrong for a person to want quality, but why make us slaves to pay for services that sometimes are not used because they do not have time! Why do it? It would be better to invest it in something better! everything that comes out is more expensive and the person, so to speak, becomes crazy to buy it! often forgetting other important needs are extremely consumers.
Why buy so many things that have only a little difference between them? If you can watch a family movie on a regular TV, you do not need to buy one that has even the internet to watch the same movie!
One thing is to consume to live and another is to live to consume!! 👍