What total crap. Capitalism has never been about morality. Every single paradigm shift centers more and more value and wealth in the hands of increasingly elit

What total crap. Capitalism has never been about morality. Every single paradigm shift centers more and more value and wealth in the hands of increasingly elite few, while more people fall into poverty. Is this moral? Well, the author drives a car, uses the Internet, buys clothing made in Asia, doesn't he? Who gives a fuck? Obviously not him. Software is just the next paradigm shift. It allows you to do, cheaper, faster, and better, what we previously did with more inefficiency. Having your secretary or personal assistant or "people" book you a table somewhere is exactly the same as having an automated service do it and buying it at auction later. The former is just way more expensive. Software lets more people be assholes. That's capitalism. That's why we're here. Do we need to have a conversation about whether new products are moral? What about a conversation about whether existing products are moral? What about a conversation whether the prison-industrial or military-industrial complexes are moral? What about a conversation about the kids we kill in drone strikes or the unemployment generated by NAFTA or any amount of suffering caused by the existing order of the world? I'm sorry if I have to be the one to break it to anyone but the world is a horrifically fucked up place. You probably have never seen how fucked up it is and if I linked you to some videos that are just the tippy-top of the iceberg of fucked up I'd probably get banned from HN and never hired again. Software doesn't change this at all. What software does is make it much, much easier to be part of the horrific system we find ourselves in. Uber is an 80's taxi managers wet dream. Absolutely anyone in that industry would have loved to get their hands on that! Does anyone seriously think that if you said to anyone in the taxi industry in 1970 "Hey, fire all your employees, get them back on as contractors making way less, use this software to dispatch them and sit on your ass watching the cash roll in" they would have turned you down? The reason the world is shit is because everybody is waiting for a chance to screw everyone over. American culture has explicitly celebrated this since the 20's, because it's been profitable for the elites to make it so. There isn't any conspiracy -- this is just plain market forces. Any CEO that wanted to be "ethical" is going to get fired by shareholders for a CEO that gets share prices higher. Even if everyone at Uber quits in a massive crisis of conscious and lobbies for regulation, health care for drivers, and puppies and rainbows for everyone, someone will come around the next day and do the same thing. And people will use it, because it'll be cheaper. Maybe society advances technologically faster by screwing everyone over all the time, except for the people that can afford to defend themselves well enough. We'll never really know, because those elites are so entrenched now that you'll never, ever see a world they don't own. Table reservations are the least of your worries.