I’m putting pieces of the picture together in my head and I’m just increasingly horrified by HandUp
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but it’s a bit like the tech industry sawed off your foot, and then turned around and made you a sandwich
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okay, they made you a smartphone app in order to connect you with other users looking to get rid of their excess sandwiches
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@sarahjeong i agree with most of this. i think handup itself is nobly intended, but its existence highlights a shameful effect of the tech -
@sarahjeong so handup can both be a thing that's not inherently bad but an indicator of a larger & much awfuller context in which it thrives -
@crulge agree, that’s what really repulses me -
@sarahjeong i am left concluding what you did: everything is terrible -
@sarahjeong but absent a fix for the moral crevasse into which handup operates, is it socially deleterious for it to prosper? -
@crulge I think things can come out ahead on net social utility and still be objectionable on other grounds
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@sarahjeong it's like those snide "if Microsoft made the packaging for the iPod" videos from a decade ago -- -
@sarahjeong -- a simple, friendly product putting into stark contrast all the contradictions the entire system has accumulated to that point -
You know, I can’t even be mad at HandUp. It’s nothing but HandUp and potato salads, all the way down
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@sarahjeong@vogon To be honest, I see something off, too - but it's way less for them than for, say, the Red Cross fighting FOIA requests.
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