KittenKoder
Senior Member
Not all TV is soaps. TV is also informative and educative. It may be a luxury but then some people say that internet access is a luxury. Yet, those without internet are becoming more and more marginalized. For example, some large employers in my state will only accept online job applications and resumes.
The internet is more useful than TV but they both serve important purposes and those who are denied one or the other or both because of economic reasons do suffer.
*smirks* I am a techie and I can't stand how dependant people are on tech. Ever notice how the more people rely on technology the worse our world gets? It IS a luxury, so is the internet, so are computers, calculators, telephones, radios ... ALL of it. Without it you live, with it you whither away and die. I love tech, but even then (if you hadn't noticed) I don't spend as much time online as many do. I love walking, trees, the sky, swimming, hunting, camping, biking much more, it's just that because of all the excessive breeding humans are doing and not enough dying I don't get to as often, thus tech is my escape from humans, not from the real world.
Here's a great story, I have always been good at math, better than most, so it's no surprise that I can do all simple math without even blinking. I was working at a fast food place, my favorite position the dish pit (oh I miss that job). Then the registers crashed, there were three of us, out of eight employees and one manager, who were still able to take the orders and make change fast enough (if at all) because everyone else was too use to using the damned calculators. Soon people won't even be able to think without a machine telling them what to think about .... oh wait I forgot we already have iPhones .... scratch that, soon people won't be able to go to the bathroom without having a machine tell them when to.
Point is, it's ALL luxury, people are just too lazy, stupid, and worthless now to remember when we didn't have all this crap and survived just fine. Tell those employers you mentioned to go to hell, I do and I am in high demand because no one else can make magic on computer networks like I can. No one else can get a scrapped server back up and running in less than triple the time it takes me. But none of them can get me via the net, because online I am off duty, it's my free time. They have to pick up the phone and dial the numbers, then they have to talk to me FACE TO FACE, because if I don't like them I won't do the job. Soon it will all be like that because ... well ... just keep in mind, most of us coders are sick of seeing our real lives ruined by people who over use these tools we made for you.