Doesn’t have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn’t have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions.

The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative.

I’m interested in other examples of things that aren’t just useful, but that open new possibilities.

  • @[email protected]
    18•9 months ago

    First step is to post something onpopular but true on Lemmy, and be OK with the downvotes. I dare you all. :)

    • @[email protected]
      10•9 months ago

      HAMAS are terrorists and a part of the New Axis of fascist dictatorships which consist of Russia, Iran, China and North Korea among other minor countries and militant groups. Free Palestine movement is their loud, but in the grand scheme of thinga inconsequential piece of propaganda. TikTok is one the main propaganda tools of the Axis. There. Got downvoted for this plenty of times. Good thing the useful idiots are just a loud minority of primarily well-off USA students who cosplay being communists without understanding a thing about communism.

      • @[email protected]
        4•9 months ago

        started strong, and then pivoted into “students in the US who want a better life are idiots.”

        What everyone seems to misunderstand, is that the form of government doesn’t matter. Whatever form it takes, it is only as good as the social safety net it provides it’s citizens. Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, whichever, it doesn’t matter. They all have the same pitfall, in that inevitably all the wealth and power is funneled to the top. The only way to make an equitable society, is to provide for one through strong social programs.

        Attempting to vilify one particular style of governance is like pointing out that the foundation of the house is cracked, and blaming it on the vinyl siding.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
        1•9 months ago
        • I want to downvote you cos I disagree.
        • But I have a policy of never downvoting unless it’s spam.
        • But you seem to be posting this to get downvotes to test the hypothesis of the OP. A downvote will help you in the long run.
        • But I disagree with you so do I wanna help you?
        • Of course I wanna help cos life is hard.
        • But I don’t do downvotes unless it’s spam…

        …

        Segmentation fault

      • @[email protected]English
        1•9 months ago

        Socialism, the WEF, and those big organizations are ruining the world and want to enslave all humanity. You will own nothing and like it and eat zee bugs.

    • metaStatic
      4•9 months ago

      I’m on Kbin, my superpower is that Lemmy downvotes can’t touch me.