{"id":176,"date":"2024-12-07T06:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/the-collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age-the-walrus\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T06:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:57:27","slug":"the-collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/the-collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age-the-walrus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>THE LUDIC LOOP of the internet has automated our inner worlds: we don\u2019t have to choose what we like, or even if we like it; the algorithm chooses for us. Take Shein, the fast fashion leviathan. While other fast fashion brands wait for high-end houses to produce designs they can replicate cheaply, Shein has completely eclipsed the runway, using AI to trawl social media for cues on what to produce next. Shein\u2019s site operates like a casino game, using \u201cdark patterns\u201d\u2014a countdown clock puts a timer on an offer, pop-ups say there\u2019s only one item left in stock, and the scroll of outfits never ends\u2014so you buy now, ask if you want it later.<\/p>\n<p>Shein\u2019s model is dystopic: countless reports detail how it puts its workers in obscene poverty in order to sell a reprieve to consumers who are also moneyless\u2014a saturated plush world lasting as long as the seams in one of their dresses. Yet the day to day of Shein\u2019s target shopper is so bleak, we strain our moral character to cosplay a life of plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Automation isn\u2019t forced upon us: we crave it, oblivion, thanks to the tech itself. As the ascendant apparatus of the labour market, it\u2019s squeezed already dire working conditions to a suffocation point, until all we desire is the sweet fugue of scroll, our decision maker set to \u201coff.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age\/\">thewalrus.ca\/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LUDIC LOOP of the internet has automated our inner worlds: we don\u2019t have to choose what we like, or even if we like it; the algorithm chooses for us. Take Shein, the fast fashion leviathan. While other fast fashion brands wait for high-end houses to produce designs they can replicate cheaply, Shein has completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}