I'm at the Ned Ludd point where I'm viscerally disgusted by people who share 20-years-younger-me's wide-eyed optimism about "the digital revolution" and all that shit How can you not see that the people most empowered by the "digital revolution" are the worst people in the world
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The harm caused by tech IS THE GOOD STUFF It's the power that it gives people It's the widespread instantaneous dissemination of information, the decreased friction in marketplaces allowing global competition, it's the automation replacing the need for human labor
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If I wanted to reduce the amount of harm that tech has caused in the most significant way it has caused harm -- replacing human workers -- I would make tech bad I would require all code to be proprietary, obfuscated and maintained by a single team of six aging stupid programmers
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Source code isn't the only thing that's harmed by being caged up, though. The harm Uber are doing is ultimately facilitated by artificial scarcity. In this case, the artificial scarcity is: it only works with *their* drivers.
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There is no shortage of empty seats in vehicles covering any given route. That is an abundant resource, yet it is going to waste for want of any way of getting those seats filled. Which sounds like a great task, but the underlying bit is actually pretty trivial.
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