Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their family, friends and associates. Society dissolves.

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    5 hours ago

    Yr probably right. Society would go on as usual because the bottom line is, ultimately, unaffected.

    But, squishy moods on a mass scale constitute the weather of politics and commerce. From that angle, big things might happen.

    Consider the general stress of a population : X. When x goes up we vote and shop thusly. That’s a known thing.

    And x would definitely go up here.So such a hackyvirus could be a tool in shifting a close election or selling an unpopular product.

    (Not to mention the effect on phone sales, attitudes towards privacy, the eternally eroding nuclear family…)

    So that’s a thing to think about.

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      43 minutes ago

      That’s not what they said or implied, and nor is what follows a reasonable conclusion

      I’m convinced you’re just a sophist who loves the act of arguing itself for its own sake, without any care for truth, only appearing insightful and logical

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          21 minutes ago

          No, I’ve pretty consistently called you a fart huffing egomaniac, or similar. But hey, I guess you just couldn’t resist yet another deflection.