• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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              20 hours ago

              I’m 51, kiddo. I grew up using cash and writing checks. And that world is gone.

              If you kill all the datacenters, all those neat little cards in your pocket cease to function. And going to the bank won’t get you any money because they can’t interconnect anymore. Going to the grocery store and gas station will soon dry up even if you have cash because they can’t coordinate deliveries anymore.

            • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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              20 hours ago

              Oh please, fuck off. Wealth inequality kills far more, and all of those are problems, but internet disappearing (i.e. datacenters going away) would kill billions within weeks. Some people would survive, but it would be several orders of magnitude worse than any disaster that came before.

              People are fucking ignorant and talking out their ass.

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                20 hours ago

                Yeah, and who do you think is more contributing to climate change?

                Your privilege is showing. I honestly don’t care anymore. Any action that can threaten the status quo always has some shit coming out of the wood work claiming that more people are helped by the status quo than are being hurt. Don’t care anymore. I’ve heard every permutation of this discussion by now.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7GqLQgmm8