And we see that it clearly has a very negative impact overall so idk what kind of argument is that.
"everything sucked so we destroyed our environment and enslaved ourselves to machines to make it bearable"
You're talking about AC? Surely the climate dialogue hasn't devolved to the point of "uses energy == bad". We can reflect on its role in shaping society/living spaces and its costs and benefits without being so reductionist.
AC has had an extremely positive impact. Simple uses energy == bad reasoning hasn't.
Humans are just really good at externalizing costs on the environment and on each other.
And enough humans are driven by motivated reasoning so that entire organizations are devoted to disrupting any attempts at fixing things.
Those are human problems. Facebooks social problems are not caused by the evils of digital scrapbooking with reliable write/read coherence over shards. They are the evils of humans redirecting information based on perverse incentives, taking profits from others pain.