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Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib for crying babies (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I told you bro. I fuckin' warned you.

People have called me "paranoid" for years for pointing out that this kind of thing was going to happen, and it's so much worse than I thought it would be but at least I'm vindicated.

Tech companies will literally murder or enslave you if they think it would be good for their bottom line. We know that's true because tech companies are murdering and enslaving people in the global south because it's good for their bottom line. Stop giving them money. Stop buying wifi-enabled garbage that spies on you for the police state.

Maybe it's a good thing that people with entirely too much money are being forced to rock their own crying child instead of having a machine do it. Using robots to soothe your child is a Phillip K. Dick-esque dystopia. Obviously a crying child take a huge mental and physical health toll on everyone in a house, but in a country where poor people are being forced to give birth, maybe the rich people should have to suffer a little bit too.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Philip K Dick is absolutely winning the Predictive Distopian Futures Award out of all the sci-fi authors.