Wallabag | Why I Try to Be Kind

Digital technologies that deliver goods without requiring us to interact with the humans who made, marketed, and delivered them are socially deleterious technologies that deny us the most accessible opportunities to be kind. Regular Americans have been unbothered by excessive wealth. But tech wealth feels different. It aims less to capture our attention than to reduce it to near nothingness. The deterioration of our attention span has not gone so far as to render us oblivious to the resulting consolidation of wealth. As a result, regular Americans—those struggling to make ends meet—potentially hold immense power. More than they know.