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There’s no question here, wrong community.

I think your post comes across a bit jaded, and you make a bunch of objectively untrue statements. Gotta have some basis in reality if you’re going to toss around terms like “absolutely zero”

I’m wondering if you are perhaps limiting yourself to whatever you can perceive where you live and what you allow yourself to be exposed to.

Ultimately, the world changes and clinging to nostalgic “good old days” isn’t healthy.

California produces 80% of the world’s almonds and substantial amounts of the world’s grapes, strawberries, and walnuts. Oregon’s strawberries are highly renowned, but the state also produces more than half of the world’s grass seed and a substantial portion of the world’s hazelnuts.

Cannabis is an entire industry and job market. There are many who have profited massively from developing it, people do earn a living as budtenders.

I’ve been to several medium and small cities that have multiple record stores, multiple tailors, multiple toy stores, one-of-a-kind furniture builders. These things exist, they’re just not as ubiquitous as they once were.

Kids absolutely do play, which is something that anyone who knows more than a few can tell you. Just because it’s more technology focused than it was doesn’t mean that tech has outright replaced play.

Everything my eyes point to

I think it’s time you broaden your horizons. Look further and deeper.

I agree that the system is broken, but I don’t think that any of your points are the reason.

I also resent the concept of “getting us ahead”. I see treating everything as a race / competition as a limiting humanity, we can all be elevated through cooperation.

A power surge is a spike in voltage, not current

There are some electrical panels / breaker boxes that integrated surge protection by diverting excess voltage to ground

I have a CyberPower 1500VA AVR UPS.

Some time ago, I had an electrical fault on one of two devices - either my Logitech Z906 subwoofer or a cheap power supply for a cheap monitor. Both failed at the same time and were connected to the UPS.

There’s a known issue with the Logitech Z906 where a pair of underrated resistors can blow. They had both exploded, and had also taken out a step down regulator elsewhere on the board.

So, the UPS seems to have failed to protect from an electrical fault of another connected device.

Hard to say how many times it has saved me from power surges and the like, I have everything expensive behind a UPS or surge protection so I don’t have equipment failures to compare against.

For the most part, UPS have allowed me to stay online after a power outage to tell my friends the power went out.

There were a few circumstances where my partner tripped a breaker and I was able to restore power without getting disconnected from a game.

One thing late-stage Reddit really had going for it is that, for any niche topic or hobby, you could find a sizeable active community.

I still have to visit that place from time to time, but I’d rather be on Lemmy.