The essay is a great example of a mindset that devalues the subjective and strives to rebrand it as objective. Paradoxically it shows insecurity. "My experience doesn't count unless it's The Truth."
You like a thing. That's fine. That's enough. There's no need to prove the worth of your own enjoyment by fantasizing that it conquers everyone else's brain too.
You're the adult now. You're allowed to like it just because you like it.
Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you aren't. That's an internet snark trope, and we're trying to avoid that kind of thing here.
You're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully, of course.
These scammers are parasites on society, they add nothing while draining resources away from honest people.
If you participate in society, that net drag will affect you in subtle ways. Like if you have money invested in something, that thing doesn’t go up in value as much as it would have if x% of society isn’t simply parasitic.
You are missing the point, though. The complainer decides whether it's a solvable problem or not, not the listener. So "I'll listen if it's unsolvable (to me)" is a non-starter.
For it to be a poor use of resources, you have to have some goal you are optimizing against.
And I think you'll come to find that the assumed goal in your head is not one that's widely shared across what people in society actually want.
Okay, maybe the digital ad is a waste of resources. But is it any more of a waste than the gender reveal confetti that it was advertising? How about even the idea of a gender reveal party.
What about an enamel pokemon fridge magnet?
After a very low bar (for 2026), human essentials are taken care of and people mostly want luxury/leisure consumer goods for entertainment.
An interesting thing I learned from reading the article is that Spain is the 4th largest exporter of turbines behind only China, Germany, and Denmark.
Reading the other comments, it's really a shame we can't have a discussion about something happening in the world before it immediately becomes about the US, on topics that are barely relevant.
Spain is also big in the utility scale solar and storage industry with the Power Electronics company providing inverters or other components to many of the worlds largest plants.
I’ve seen it personally in San Jose. Guy turned left but instead of continuing onto the crossing road, he turned onto the VTA rails in the middle of the road. Then proceeded to get stuck on the concrete partition once the intersection was over, and work crews had to come out to fix the mess.
“I can’t crawl inside your skull and prove you wrong. But this is how it works for most people, including most who insist it does not.“
Consider this direct excerpt of 2 back to back sentences and how 1 contradicts the other.
You can’t crawl inside my skull, but you can crawl inside everyone else’s?