Because I'm salty about tent zippers.

So I was camping this weekend, and I--what? What's so funny? I camp. Ok, I sleep in a tent during festivals. What do you know anyway? For all you know, I'm the rugged outdoorsy type. Sure, I have opinions about which Star Trek captain is the best captain (it's Janeway, by the way), but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the outdoors. Anyway, what was my point?

And don't even "Justice for Tuvix" me. Tuvix was 100% ok with
consigning two characters to oblivion. Janeway made the right call.

Pictured: every zipper ever.

Right, fascists. Look, I don't want to tell out of touch billionaires how to spend their time, but maybe instead of helping a gameshow host make the world slightly more convenient for the one percenters, they could work on real problems? Like tent zippers? I mention this because I've owned several tents over the years, and we, as a civilization, that is, seem incapable of designing a zipper that doesn't get caught on that weird flap which itself is designed to protect the zipper. 

Like dick rockets that take rich
people into space and leave them there?

It's a minor complaint, I realize, and I accept that there's really just a very narrow group of people out there affected by this issue. That is, people like me who go camping only occasionally and don't have the patience to hold the flap away while slowly unzipping, much less clean and lubricate the zippers regularly. But it seems like an attainable thing, right? So much time and energy is being pumped into ideas and technology that only make life worse. Crypto, social media, dick rockets that send rich people into space. Why not do something useful instead? 

Although, incidentally, don't vape.

"But what about the free market? If an idea is bad, then people won't go for it." Says a straw man I've invented for this argument with myself. But won't they? Go for it, I mean? I think the idea that capitalism is self-correcting went out the window with the discovery that if you throw enough money at an idea, people will buy it, even if they don't need or want it. Don't believe me? Explain crypto. Explain vaping. This isn't a don't vape, kids thing, but it offers nothing but lung damage, but people still do it because marketing. 

I suppose what I'm saying is that we live in a time where a very few people control an unreasonable amount of wealth. A disproportionate amount. So much so that capitalism is broken. Money, resources and ingenuity are directed into making more wealth for people who have it all, rather than improving the lives of the rest of us. 

There are only two kinds of people who care about crypto:
stupid people, and those who wish to exploit them.