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No idea what ratfucking is, but the willful ignorance in your examples is almost comical. Example 1: innovations in technology & clever business model put prev
by cactus2093 6y ago
No idea what ratfucking is, but the willful ignorance in your examples is almost comical.
Example 1: innovations in technology & clever business model put previously expensive thing in reach for an order of magnitude wider audience, leads to significant qualitative shift in behavior/capabilities for the average person.
Uber: Exactly the same thing.
Why are you so offended about the harm to the taxi industry, what about all the vacuum tube manufacturers put out of business by semiconductors? Innovation has always involved creative destruction, but for some reason there's a bigger than usual portion of society now that is completely unwilling to acknowledge utilitarian benefits and wants to make all change illegal. And the even greater tragedy is it's always the comfortable, well-off upper middle class making these arguments on behalf of the working class, with absolutely no skin in the game because they will never be the first ones affected by the negative consequences of their absolutist worldview.
- Apocryphon 6y agoCouldn't vacuum tube manufacturers pivot to semiconductors, at least somewhere in the production process.
- Nasrudith 6y agoNope - only in the sense of your great grear grandfather's axe after your grandfather replaced the head three times and your father replaced the haft twice and the head is now a sledgehammer. Vacuum tube making is about metalworking essentially. Sure you can swap components between the wires but manufacturing of vacuum tubes is entirely different than silicon and even they needed new fab processes for nanometer changes. Lightbulbs and would have been a better pivot (with or without a gas in the medium for neon lights or CFBs) at least until LEDs finished them off.