Me: Cars
Market speculation or quarterly profits.
A financial system that breeds billionaires
So far crypto currencies. So far they seem to expend a huge amount of electricity and used mostly for speculation.
Weapon of mass destruction
Chemical weapons
Lead pipes.
Leaded gasoline has to be worse.
Lead pipes are fine. Step 1: Install. Step 2: ignore one generation of aggressive residents. Step 3: never touch the pipes again
Leaded Gasoline comes to mind…
Social media year over year shows it was a mistake.
Easy question:
AI
Net negative pushing us toward unavoidable global ecosystem collapse: it produces nothing but the unfulfilled promise of eventually replacing human workers, which it has never shown the capability to do and according to the researchers who founded the AI companies will never do due to “AI Scaling Laws”. It has increased power consumption and costs by over 30% in some US States.
Either leaded gasoline or pfas
Leaded gasoline is an Amazing answer. Fuck. Take my UpDoot.
Roads
Teflon
Asbestos
PFAS
24 hour news networks.
News used to just be the news when there was a half hour of local, half hour of national twice per night with a morning show for fluff, weather, and brief news updates. 24 hour news needed to fill the whole 24 hours and also pay for itself by getting eyeballs on advertisers. That’s when all of the sensationalist stuff started taking over.
Funny how few mention inventions that serve no other purpose than to kill people
Some of the other inventions are what build support in populations for inventing, building, and using those weapons
Waepons!
