They're awesome when people don't half-ass them. They're awesome when they don't cause piles of problems that any half-competent social scientist could've highl

They're awesome when people don't half-ass them. They're awesome when they don't cause piles of problems that any half-competent social scientist could've highlighted immediately but no engineer ever seems willing to consider. They're awesome when they show actual engineering prowess, and not just slapping the cheapest shit on the cheapest other shit, outsourcing maintenance and operation to the cheapest available labor, and then leaving the broken carcass behind to pollute the public roads because it's cheaper that way. They're awesome when they're not thinly veiled ways of concentrating capital put into a world in which people can't afford insulin because that would cause some concentrated capital to be dispersed. They're awesome when we're creating an awesome world, not when we're sprinting towards dystopia. It's a cool toy, don't get me wrong, but I'm an adult now and I'm aware I need to put my toys away myself because my mom won't do it for me anymore.