You are making yourself a dependant. Controlled by companies who can change terms whenever they wish. They can increase prices they can close down they can say you don't get access anymore. When you have skills (actual skills you've learned and internalized) you have bargaining power. You have options. You can negotiate. You own something that isn't something that can be taken away by a terms of service update. "Without stress". A lot of work is going on there for that phrase. Because yeah, learning is stressful. Creating is stressful. Struggling with something difficult is uncomfortable by definition. But is stress free consumption really what man needs? Or do we need the friction? There's research to suggest that humans need a challenge to make them feel alive. Not constant suffering, but of experiencing the process of working towards something, of becoming competent at something that was once hard. Maybe we get better outputs yeah. But do we get better humans? Do we get to people who know themselves, who have confidence in their own capabilities, who know that they have the capacity to affect the world directly? Or do we just get real efficient consumers?
You are making yourself a dependant. Controlled by companies who can change terms whenever they wish. They can increase prices they can close down they can say you don't get access anymore. When you have skills (actual skills you've learned and internalized) you have bargaining power. You have options. You can negotiate. You own something that isn't something that can be taken away by a terms of service update. "Without stress". A lot of work is going on there for that phrase. Because yeah, learning is stressful. Creating is stressful. Struggling with something difficult is uncomfortable by definition. But is stress free consumption really what man needs? Or do we need the friction? There's research to suggest that humans need a challenge to make them feel alive. Not constant suffering, but of experiencing the process of working towards something, of becoming competent at something that was once hard. Maybe we get better outputs yeah. But do we get better humans? Do we get to people who know themselves, who have confidence in their own capabilities, who know that they have the capacity to affect the world directly? Or do we just get real efficient consumers?

You are making yourself a dependant. Controlled by companies who can change terms whenever they wish. They can increase prices they can close down they can say you don't get access anymore. When you have skills (actual skills you've learned and internalized) you have bargaining power. You have options. You can negotiate. You own something that isn't something that can be taken away by a terms of service update. "Without stress". A lot of work is going on there for that phrase. Because yeah, learning is stressful. Creating is stressful. Struggling with something difficult is uncomfortable by definition. But is stress free consumption really what man needs? Or do we need the friction? There's research to suggest that humans need a challenge to make them feel alive. Not constant suffering, but of experiencing the process of working towards something, of becoming competent at something that was once hard. Maybe we get better outputs yeah. But do we get better humans? Do we get to people who know themselves, who have confidence in their own capabilities, who know that they have the capacity to affect the world directly? Or do we just get real efficient consumers?

You are making yourself a dependant. Controlled by companies who can change terms whenever they wish. They can increase prices they can close down they can say you don't get access anymore. When you have skills (actual skills you've learned and internalized) you have bargaining power. You have options. You can negotiate. You own something that isn't something that can be taken away by a terms of service update. "Without stress". A lot of work is going on there for that phrase. Because yeah, learning is stressful. Creating is stressful. Struggling with something difficult is uncomfortable by definition. But is stress free consumption really what man needs? Or do we need the friction? There's research to suggest that humans need a challenge to make them feel alive. Not constant suffering, but of experiencing the process of working towards something, of becoming competent at something that was once hard. Maybe we get better outputs yeah. But do we get better humans? Do we get to people who know themselves, who have confidence in their own capabilities, who know that they have the capacity to affect the world directly? Or do we just get real efficient consumers?