This post is intended to start a discussion & help newcomers. For the next few posts, I will be taking current events to get a conversation started here. Let me know if I should continue doing this more!
As I’m sure a few of you have seen on the front page of Reddit either yesterday or today, a huge startup has been having a lot of website troubles which has been angering a lot of Reddit lately. The story is pretty weird & hard to explain, but if some of you don’t know the story, I’ll edit in a link later.
I forget their name but the startup got a lot of negative backlash from the story which made their audience very angry. But what was more interesting was looking at all of the comments in the Reddit posts on the front page. Users were furious that a free service (which was mostly used for enjoyment purposes) was down for a certain amount of time.
I’ve seen this type of reaction to other trivial matters and was curious where it came from. It has happened with free online videogames that I’ve played, where I’ve seen people assume that they deserve something from others for some reason. And then I’ve also seen it from the whole Szechuan sauce event where people were in arms that McDonalds didn’t have their cartoon’s favorite condiment.
Points for discussion:
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For simple living, how do you avoid becoming addicted to certain websites or services so that you don’t have this type of reaction yourself?
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Is it mentally healthy to have a sense of entitlement to things you don’t actually own or deserve?
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Does our society inherently make our lives more complex? If so, how do we avoid it?
Submitted November 07, 2017 at 11:28AM by JefferyStevens753 http://ift.tt/2zoMMEq
