Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

> No more friendships, community, family, everything is just ulterior motives.

> The reason people are in the golden handcuffs is because they always want to hold onto tomorrow - a tomorrow that may never come.

> People are so vile, greedy, self-centered - even ourselves at times.

> These are just my conclusions.

Just an observation, but these conclusions of yours seem to to revolve a lot around judging and directing resentment at other peoples' priorities and the authenticity of their motivations.

In particular, family, community and friendships are things that help people get through their otherwise mundane workdays. For many, they're not lies or illusions, but rather, the very things that make dealing w/ occasional BS in the professional world worthwhile.

Perhaps it's a sign that you might benefit from more focus on yourself and your own process and purpose, instead of focusing on others, whose purpose and process you can't control.

That's not an excuse for the way people behave, but it's a useful thing to keep in mind when trying to think about how to change the problems. They're behavioral, social, and organizational problems, not technical ones.

Meaningful change can only come through those avenues, then, like politics. Of course, that's an ugly field on its own... if you prefer to keep a tech lens on it, you can try to design products to push society in certain directions, but you could also work towards that without doing any sort of technological work at all.

These sorts of things are the strongest sorts of anti-libertarian arguments I know of. The "market" necessarily devolves to the people who are willing to push the boundaries the most, because it's near-impossible to know all the bad actors exhaustively in advance, and because so many people are willing to compromise - at least somewhat - in their pursuit of personal security.

When I was growing up, 13,000 miles on a set of tires was about all we got.

The deal now, and for at least 20 years, is better rubber compounds for the tread, mesh under the tread to keep the tread from flexing on the road surface, and better cord, maybe Kevlar, for the rest. Now a lot of tires are super tough things.

For a Chevy S-10 Blazer, I bought some Cooper snow tires a few years ago, but I don't drive very much now so have put only maybe only 10,000 miles on them -- they show none or nearly no signs of wear yet.

I drove a Buick Turbo T-Type, heavy car but fast, for about 220,000 miles with just the original tires and one set of new tires. The new tires didn't wear as long as I hoped -- they sold me luxury, smooth riding tires, and I don't give even as much as a weak little hollow hoot about smooth, luxury.

I put 200,000+ miles on a Chevy Nova with just the original plus 1 or 2 sets of new tires; similarly for a hot rod Camaro. Then I was getting tires from Michelin.

Ballpark, the change I see is 13,000 miles growing up and 75,000 miles when I was doing a lot of driving.

But there are some exceptions: There are some luxury, smooth riding tires that, AFAIK, don't last as long. Some high performance tires have significantly higher coefficient of friction and, thus, shorter tread life. Maybe front wheel drive can chew up tires. Full time four wheel drive maybe shouldn't but I suspect does chew up tires. Soft suspensions tend to scrub the tires on the road.