alt Hacker News> That's going to give back the productivity gain and more, while also decreasing my quality of life.
Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life?
If not, then who draws the line as to who deserves what benefit in life? You?
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One imagines that quality of life ought to increase as technology evolves and the economy grows.
Driving everyone's QoL to be as bad as possible will lead to increasing enshittiffication in the entire market.
Consumers will be spoiled for choice between deeply mediocre options.
Besides, what's the point of adopting new technologies if it's not to increase the quality of life? If everyone just exists in service of the product development lifecycle, who and what are the products actually for?
People are definitely entitled to complaining about decreasing quality of life and not liking causes of such changes.
This poster wasn’t claiming they were entitled. What kind of question is this?