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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#22
Social media. Addictive, dehumanizing, causes depression, promotes terrible behavior, actively reduces our capacity to have real human connections.
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#23
The Polygraph machine. Super innaccurate and I believe even the inventor curses its existance.
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#25
The New generation of Every basic machine. Like refrigerators that requires internet to work, It only have one job to do
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#28
Scam calls! We get them on our house phone all the time and it’s so annoying
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#29
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
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#30
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
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#33
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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#35
Political parties. We should have listened to Washington…
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