When I go pick up boxed merchandise from a store like Best Buy or Target, there's nothing the clerk is doing that couldn't have been done by a vending machine.

When I go pick up boxed merchandise from a store like Best Buy or Target, there's nothing the clerk is doing that couldn't have been done by a vending machine. It wastes a human being's intelligence to keep them in a dead-end poverty-level job like that, and we're only doing it because we haven't really figured out how to deal humanely with our huge labor surplus. When I want advice, I'll seek it out from people who don't have huge conflicts of interest around what I do or don't choose to buy.