Withtechnologyand nearly everything around us developed in leaps and bounds nowadays, it’s clear that innovation has become one of the driving forces for change in our world. However, not all inventions or innovative solutions have resulted inpositive changeonly, which is why some people would rather that they weren’t invented in the first place.Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what things they would like to “dis-invent” if they had a chance. With answers ranging from cigarettes to social media, netizens provided some interesting perspectives, which you can find on the list below. Scroll down to view their answers and learn what inventions might not have changed our worldfor the better.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Withtechnologyand nearly everything around us developed in leaps and bounds nowadays, it’s clear that innovation has become one of the driving forces for change in our world. However, not all inventions or innovative solutions have resulted inpositive changeonly, which is why some people would rather that they weren’t invented in the first place.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what things they would like to “dis-invent” if they had a chance. With answers ranging from cigarettes to social media, netizens provided some interesting perspectives, which you can find on the list below. Scroll down to view their answers and learn what inventions might not have changed our worldfor the better.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Influencers.
Child Beauty Pageants. They just seem really toxic and creepy.
Pop-up ads.ChefExcellent13:The creator of them even apologized for creating them.
Mandatory cookies to view websites.
Certain dog breeds, like all the brachycephalic (flat-nosed dogs such as frenchies and bull dogs).
The tipping option when I check out on those computers at the checkout counter.Euphoric_Wolf7227:Maybe tips in general. Just pay people for the work they do.
Those nearly-blinding, unnecessarily bright car head lamps.
Spam calls, robo calls, phishing emails.
Coffee Pods - they are disgustingly wasteful.
Cars with screens on the dash. Give me back my buttons and dials goddamn it!!
Slavery.
Planned obsolescence.Jealous-Network1899:Here’s my go to planned obsolescence example. My mom bought her first microwave in 1984. It’s traveled to 3 houses and still works perfect. She redid her kitchen and got all new appliances EXCEPT for a microwave. I have lived out of the house for 23 years and have had at least 7 microwaves. They keep cr*pping out and I buy a new one. That is planned obsolescence in a nutshell.
Landmines. Seriously. They f**k up people long after wars are finished.Redshift_1:There’s an estimated 800,000 TONS of unexploded ordnance still in Vietnam, that would take hundreds of years to clear out. For context, the bomb dropped in Hiroshima had a yield of about 15,000 tons of TNT.
The medical insurance industry.Perturabo_Iron_Lord:The problem with modern insurance is that it’s been completely corrupted with the drive for profit. In a pure form insurance has the potential to be incredibly beneficial to the people who use it, but the profit incentive causes companies to use every trick and loophole in the book to not give out what is owed.
Our two-tiered justice system; One for the wealthy and politically connected, and one for the rest of us.
That dumb paper sticker that gets put on stuff that is IMPOSSIBLE to remove cleanly.
Subscription services. Either let me try it for free then buy it full Price or let me rent it and charge me only for the amount of time I used it for.Of course, it doesn’t apply to everything. Subscriptions make sense for something like Apple Music, Xbox Game Pass or Costco, but I don’t want to have to pay Adobe 60 dollars a month for Photoshop when I could just rent a license. You don’t subscribe to a car, you just rent it for how many days you need it for.
Phones and computers in which you can’t easily replace the battery.
Cigarettes.
Social media.DestinyInDanger:This! It was innocent in the MySpace days. Then Facebook came along and everything after that ruined it. I don’t see anything good that has come of it. Nothing but toxicity, hate, division and arguing.
TikTok.
Organized religion.
Nuclear bomb probably. Let’s put that back in Pandora’s box.
Patents for Insulin.lutz164:I’d say medicinal patents In general, let the prices fall, and the diabetics rejoice.
The packages they put scissors in… that you need scissor to open. Wtf?
Household appliances that are tied to subscription services.
Vapes. Tossed mine in the trash an hour ago, though.
The ad-based internet.
Corporate personhood.
Pyramid schemes
A lot of inventions mentioned here that have had positive outcomes alongside of negative ones. HOA’s however may look good on paper, but hath wrought no good to this world.
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Glitter. I seriously consider it to be the worst human invention.
CAPTCHA. That’s not a motorcycle, that’s a moped. And I still don’t think the rider should count as part of the motorcycle.
Advertising. The primary goal of advertising is to manufacture desire, and the Buddhists are on to something with the claim that desire is the root of all suffering. It’s the enemy of being content and satisfied with your life. It’s an omnipresent lie that’s repeated over and over that says this or that product will finally make you happy when it never will. It’s contributed to the worst parts of consumer capitalism. Cigarettes, the obesity epidemic, and more generally the mass overconsumption that has led to the rapid degradation of our planet.
Earphonejack-less iPhone.
Plastic.Kozakyw:A gift, and a curse.
Agent orange, the chemical not the band.
House remodels with materials so cheap they instantly need replacing.
Autocorrect. It’s like that well-meaning friend who jumps into your conversations with totally off-base corrections. You’re trying to type something heartfelt or important, and it’s over there like, “Did you mean ‘duck’? No, Autocorrect, I did not mean to tell my boss I’ll have the report done ‘ducking soon.
Micro-transactions and live-service games have completely ruined the videogame industry and I don’t see it ever recovering.
40 hour workweek. F**k that guy.
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The modern credit system. It rewards bad habits that are simply good for companies.
Software as a Service. Just release a full new build every few years like they used to.The concept of the Day One patch. Fix your damn software before shipping!
Sticky traps. There are more humane ways. I remember crying my eyes out as a child when I found a lizard on the one my parents had under our computer desk for fleas. I tried saving him and ripped his legs off
Single-knob showers.Those damn things can be turned like 360* around but everyone knows that there’s only a single *molecule* of that distance that doesn’t make the water blazing hot or frigidly cold. Two knobs. Give me my choices back.
I don’t know if I could de-invent it but I’d sure like to ban it 24-hour news cycle there was a time when people could read a paper or watch 26 minutes of news in the evening and share what they felt and saw with each other. Now everybody has to have a riot a movement lawyers it’s gone insane a lot of these people act like their babies on fire.
Those persistent forever chemicals.
Microsoft outlook’s search function.
Weapons.
VX Nerve agent.
Speed bumps (and no,not because I speed. I don’t.).
The smart phone. The Internet is great, and cell phones are great. Being able to so easily share your opinion and emotions has been detrimental to our society as a whole.
Fireworks.
Stupid grey vinyl flooring.
Personal automobile. Cars in general are fine, fire trucks and ambulances for instance. But America’s cities are designed around cars and made for them instead of people. If the automobile industry hadn’t lobbied city officials in the early twentieth century to design city’s in such a way that you need a car to live in them, then we could have cities with safe and efficient public transportation. We could have residential areas designed in such a way that you wouldn’t need a car, and we could have high speed rail between cities.Cars are expensive, polluting, inefficient, and worst of all, dangerous.
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