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Couldn’t one make the argument that EVERYONE is in a bubble of sorts? I (one of the SV tech workers you mention) was recently in rural Georgia for a cousin’s w
by holtkam2 2y ago
Couldn’t one make the argument that EVERYONE is in a bubble of sorts?
I (one of the SV tech workers you mention) was recently in rural Georgia for a cousin’s wedding, where I was shocked to learn that many people in the area considered the previous presidential election to have been stolen. I wanted to scream “you need to get out of your bubble!”
- myaccountonhn 2y agoYou can, the issue is more that SV has way too little understanding of the world for the influence it has.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoAnd I would argue, more importantly, it has way too little understanding for the influence it wants to have. SV companies want to disrupt every industry, irrespective of if the inefficiencies present are down to organizational inertia on the part of the market holders, or whether those inefficiencies are down to a myriad of other reasons we might want to do any given thing a little slower and more carefully than we otherwise might. Like, for example, background checks for taxi drivers before we give them the job of transporting strangers, alone, with zero oversight. That's not to say the taxi industry prior to Uber was saintly, far fucking from it. But it had a baseline of safety that went along with the corrupt incentive structures present in many places, that Uber completely failed to replicate and we had to re-learn the lessons we had already learned, which has cost a non-zero amount of lives.