Thanks for another great post! People are more commoditized and depersonalized than in the past, but is that entirely a good thing? The old local, no-college, personal lifestyle could be insular, suffocating and inefficient. Do you think things really were better in "The Good Ol’ Days", or are they better now, or is it a mixed bag?
It's definitely a mixed bag, and it can be devastating for certain people when they experience most of the downsides of that commodification and objectification and little of the upside.
However, it's necessary for all of this depersonalization to exist in a modern, complex society. The number of connections that can exist between one individual and the rest of society has never been greater, and we simply can't dedicate as much time for each individual as we used to.
Simply put, workers are incredibly depersonalized when they're working on an assembly line. But that assembly line enables those workers to build something that they would be unable to do by themselves. We've collectively made the decision to trade personalization for prosperity.
Thanks for another great post! People are more commoditized and depersonalized than in the past, but is that entirely a good thing? The old local, no-college, personal lifestyle could be insular, suffocating and inefficient. Do you think things really were better in "The Good Ol’ Days", or are they better now, or is it a mixed bag?
It's definitely a mixed bag, and it can be devastating for certain people when they experience most of the downsides of that commodification and objectification and little of the upside.
However, it's necessary for all of this depersonalization to exist in a modern, complex society. The number of connections that can exist between one individual and the rest of society has never been greater, and we simply can't dedicate as much time for each individual as we used to.
Simply put, workers are incredibly depersonalized when they're working on an assembly line. But that assembly line enables those workers to build something that they would be unable to do by themselves. We've collectively made the decision to trade personalization for prosperity.