[teamspirit]

All this energy being burned to create shitty images, shitty music, and shitty videos that all amount to essentially shitty memes. I don’t understand how the singular focus isn’t on solving humanity’s problems.

We already have artists, we don’t have a cure for cancer or the climate crisis.

[johnfn]

Why aren't you working on curing cancer?

[xrisk]

I don’t think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for nothing though.

[spunker540]

There’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the comedian is complaining about how scientists spend their time…”

It’s a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say communism!

[bongoman42]

In some ways it does reduce the climate crisis. A person sitting on their couch browsing memes is less carbon intensive than someone driving to their friend's place or something outdoors.