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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I mean, yes, I do think that one problem here is rent-seeking, that Uber was never interested in a "sharing economy" solution that didn't make stockholders money But also... The "sharing economy" is kind of a huge lie
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Those "untapped resources" were resources that had GOOD REASON to be untapped The barriers creating inefficiency are REAL barriers and cannot be defeated simply by giving everyone a phone and an app
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It's an effort to put the infrastructure into place in the first place. Once that's done, though, there are minimal ongoing costs, and everyone benefits from it. This means there is an incentive to build broken infrastructure that only benefits some people when it is in place.
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No, widespread hitchhiking is never going to be normalized, not in a system still built on privately owned cars and amateur drivers The way you "scale up" hitchhiking is you fund a public transit system and you buy a bus and you hire a trained professional to drive it
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