https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3m8ga/i-stopped-using-a-computer-mouse-for-a-week

The computer mouse turned 50 last December, which as far as I can tell makes it one of the longest long cons in recent history. Indeed, that small digital interface piloted by your dominant hand may very well have been the greatest grift ever devised until the dongle hit the scene. It is a decadent device that is superfluous in almost every detail; an emblem of the pure excess that has turned our modern society’s beating heart into a putrid mess of rotting flesh. Yes, dear reader, the computer mouse is a scam.

I can forgive you for not having realized this terrible truth sooner. Day in and day out, we succumb to our habits and use the computer mouse with reckless abandon. From a young age we are taught to use its deceptively simple, three-button interface as a prerequisite to computing. We are indoctrinated into the Order of the Mouse before we are old enough to question its necessity. We endlessly spin the scroll wheel as if our own lives are without end, knowing full well that this device is bad for our health. We use the mouse to make money for ourselves, even though the creator of the device never saw a penny for his invention.