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> Reddit is a glorified bulletin board and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok. > Software eats the world but Silicon Valley manages to find a
by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
> Reddit is a glorified bulletin board
and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok.
> Software eats the world but Silicon Valley manages to find a way to kill off its own creation
I blame capitalism.
digital stuff and capitalism do not mix well. something's gotta give.
but I guess I can also blame digital stuff (the internet); something will give. but which? and what? ....and when???
- musicale 3y ago> and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok Uber's trick was claiming for years that it wasn't actually taxi dispatch so it didn't have to be regulated as such. Regulatory avoidance/evasion enabled Uber to break into tightly controlled taxi markets.
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- TeMPOraL 3y ago> but I guess I can also blame digital stuff (the internet); something will give. but which? and what? ....and when??? The thing that isn't in someone's "value chain" or whatever euphemism for rent seeking is popular this year.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoA venture capital news aggregator seems an odd place to vaguely preach your anti-capitalist views. Nonetheless, what exactly does capitalism do to make "digital stuff" worse?
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