All the efficiency and convenience gained by our digitally interconnected world? "Inefficiency" is *somebody's job* That middleman that got disintermediated represents thousands of families now desperate to put food on the table
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Traditional taxicabs, traditional hotels, traditional public transit Do not let them "disrupt" and "revolutionize" anything, do not let them "drag something into the 21st century" without kicking and screaming AS HARD AS YOU FUCKING CAN
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A lot of this shit doesn't seem important, and ALL of these old institutions are run by horrible assholes Who the fuck thought ANYONE would ever have ANY reason to go to bat for big-city yellow cab companies run by the Mafia? But Travis Kalanick is immeasurably worse
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Trust me, you would rather have ordinary human villains than the Singularity You would rather fight with some shitty asshole publishing executive from Macmillan than Jeff Bezos and his algorithms The future is a trap and must be delayed as long as humanly possible
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