33 Inventions Humanity Would’ve Been Better Without

I remember being a nerdy little kid and early internet adopter, absolutely gobsmacked by the possibilities. I could connect with people all over the world, ones who had an interest in discussing the weird Sega Genesis games no one else at my school had. Of course, the good came with the bad, and now, the internet is also enabling community building between people who are mostly trying to bring slurs back into everyday language.

Still, I wouldn’t say that we would have been better off without the internet. Other inventions’ scales aren’t so even, however. There are inventions that sure seemed convenient at the time, but whose consequences sent the opposite platter, loaded with cons, clanking onto the tabletop hard enough to dent. 

We’re talking about the stuff Redditors talked about below…