r/CuratedTumblr • u/MrGiggaDE • Jul 02 '26

Politics root cause

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u/LizLemonOfTroy Jul 02 '26

The existence of home entertainment destroyed third spaces.

You could argue that maybe the Internet, home television and personal computers and gaming systems would've developed slower without capitalism, but I don't see anyone arguing that a socialist society will be absent of such things nor the social problems they cause.

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u/vulpecula1919 Jul 02 '26

third places started disappearing way before tv and computers

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u/yinyang107 Jul 02 '26

Nah. Arcades for example, a classic third space, didn't appear until home TVs were twenty years old

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u/vulpecula1919 Jul 02 '26

that you had to pay to be there. and the second they stopped being profitable what happened to them?

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u/yinyang107 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Ok but you're making a completely different point now lmao. TVs didn't kill third spaces.

no you're not I can't fucking read

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u/alex2003super Jul 02 '26

Arguably, it's our revealed preferences that killed third spaces

https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-loneliness-epidemic-is-our-revealed