So someone invented a slogan "software-is-eating-the-world" and you use it as an argument? Perhaps that slogan was invented as part of a huge hype cycle where s

So someone invented a slogan "software-is-eating-the-world" and you use it as an argument? Perhaps that slogan was invented as part of a huge hype cycle where some early success drove a gold rush type frenzy that has nothing to do with reality? Uber could only exists because very few people with way too much money decided it could be profitable. When you so few people are able to effect power on the world, you can see crazy irrational things happening. Funny thing is people are so blinded by their own technoptimist-freemarket ideology, that they work hard to rationalize random decisions made by people who happened to be rich because there happen's to be a large amount of black goo under their feet.