Article created by: Jurgita Dominauskaitė
To make our lives easier and more comfortable, people have always come up with new inventions and most of them have been really useful, like cutlery or medicine to treat illnesses that were once incurable. But there are inventions that benefit humans less and may even be dangerous.
We all probably have looked at something, couldn’t understand the purpose of it and thought that it was unnecessary to invent it. Redditor numbnerve wanted to know what people think is the invention we would be better off without and over 22k people joined the discussion with some serious answers.
Don’t forget to upvote the redditors’ answers you agree with the most and if there is something you think belongs in this list and wasn’t mentioned, leave it in the comments!
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So called influncers, I’m probably too old to understand them but I certainly don’t want my 1 year old to aspire to be one
Shark fin soup – Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year for their fins that offer little nutritional value and serve no purpose outside of being a status symbol
Landmines. I’ll tell you why:
They render large tracts of land completely unusable
They are expensive and difficult to remove safely because there is seldom documentation of where they are placed
They are cheap, plentiful, easy to place, and deadly
They kill/maim livestock and wild animals
They kill/maim innocent people decades after conflicts have ended. Many times the victims are children because they can’t read or don’t understand warning signs
Devices meant to break after a short period of time, and devices that purposely have parts you can’t replace.
Pesticides.
They’ve ruined the environment by killing off the pollinators. I swear, they will be the reason for more food shortages just as swiftly as climate change will affect us all.
Social media. Addictive, dehumanizing, causes depression, promotes terrible behavior, actively reduces our capacity to have real human connections.
The New generation of Every basic machine. Like refrigerators that requires internet to work, It only have one job to do
Twitter
Edit: Because Twitter is mainly a cesspool of hypocrisy and politics. I’ve honestly never seen so many “non descriminatory self appointed puritains” be so incredibly hateful due to someone not having the exact same opinion as them
The food pyramid brought to you by general mills, the dairy industry, and countless other big corporations whose goal was profit over the health of others
Standardized testing
“These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned” -Horace mann the inventor of standardized testing on the subject of standardized testing
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