@urlyman Indeed. Software and comms tech has a tendency...

Software and comms tech has a tendency to become more bloated to use the available bandwidth. It reminds me of the way new roads attract more traffic rather than easing congestion. Why can't we value elegance more? Depressing.

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Jonathan Schofield

@macronencer it’s what happens continually in an economics that does not care about what it externalises.

But it will care. Eventually
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15 August at 10:08 | Open on mastodon.social

janet_catcus

@macronencer @urlyman

tldr:
the more we get, the more we use. applicable to anything rly: land, coal, income, workforce, whatever influx there is.
if it's 'cheap' it will be used/claimed/exhausted as much as trivially possible :(

15 August at 11:54 | Open on hachyderm.io

Paul Will Gamble :unverified:

@macronencer @urlyman “Wait, it has even more horsepower? Can’t stable them ponies!”

15 August at 15:09 | Open on fosstodon.org

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