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I for one am quite grateful to the engineers who implement electronic automatic billing. when I was a kid, it seemed like my dad spent a lot of time sorting thr

I for one am quite grateful to the engineers who implement electronic automatic billing. when I was a kid, it seemed like my dad spent a lot of time sorting through mail and writing/mailing individual checks for services. now it's automatically billed to the credit card, the credit card gets autopaid from checking, and he just has to make sure there's enough in his checking at the end of the month. that's not a huge amount of time and thought saved, but it's not nothing either. there's a lot of this stuff that we take advantage of in our lives without really noticing, I think.

EpicEng 7y ago
Automatic billing... Meanwhile, median life expectancy has skyrocketed, in large part due to new medical treatments and early detection methods. Unless your father was spending 20-30% of each day paying bills, I don't think that's going to do it. I remain unconvinced. Let's also not forget the drain on interpersonal relations that software has brought about. If your father would have spent that time ok on FB instead I'm not sure we gained anything.