Everyone wants you to download their app, every business seems to be primarily a data harvesting operation for whom actually providing a service is incidental, you have to subscribe to everything instead of buying it, and now everything has a chatbot you don't need and can't turn off grafted on
@inyourculture.bsky.socialthe affordability crisis is real but i honestly think it's a secondary consequence of the less discussed but much more demoralizing "nothing works" crisis
