Viking_Hippie , 4 hours ago

It’s not technology that’s at fault. It’s under-regulated capitalism enabling near-monopolies and letting them get away with cutting all corners to maximize profits even as them being thorough becomes critical to the functioning of society.

If you were to put one corporation in charge of the drinking water of the world with equally lax maintenance requirements, it’d fail just as hard no matter how low tech their methods.

The answer isn’t to become a luddite or complain about tech and do nothing. It’s to demand better from the profiteers and the politicians they bribe.