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It's not the tech that's user-hostile. It's just the usual rent-seekers have cottoned on to how to leverage it to, well, seek rent. Unfortunately those people
by bregma 7y ago
It's not the tech that's user-hostile. It's just the usual rent-seekers have cottoned on to how to leverage it to, well, seek rent.
Unfortunately those people will always be with us because it's not completely ethical to weed them out at birth.
- magduf 7y agoWould it be unethical to genetically engineer embryos to eliminate sociopathy? Or how about engineering an airborne virus which modifies victims' DNA to eliminate sociopathy? (Of course, these could have drastic unintended side-effects, especially the latter.)
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoThe potential unintended consequences was covered in the movie Serenity.
- m_fayer 7y agoThrough no fault of its own I don't think a better technology has ever existed for the rent seeker to leverage than current digital tech. The whole modern concept of a "platform" puts good old fashioned slumlording and payday loaning to shame.