I like the idea of automating the maintenance away, but making it paid makes it hostile design against the homeless. These devices should be paid for with public funds and somehow made free.
I’m old enough to remember when cities provided free water fountains in parks instead of subcontracting them to “pay per fill” startups with names like “woosh”
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The difference is it’s easier to unlock the lock-in with a private contractor than a class of public employees who have to be removed via attrition and budget starvation if they do poorly. Unless we’re talking huge defense contractors with sectoral monopoly
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