Submitted 1 year ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
Also frustrating: how end users don’t care. You can explain how Uber mistreats employees or Airbnb causes rents to rise double digit percentages, but they’ll just be like “oh but it’s convenient”.
Twitter is a Nazi bar but “it has such good memes!”
If people cared just a little more, things could be so much better.
The best part is they are accurately describing what they are doing. Disrupting a working system is a negative thing. They are telling everyone that they are assholes out to ruin things and then painting it as a positive!
The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.
Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.
The whole iPad thing is marginally faster if at all than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.
Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.
And they stole that scam from the amusement park industry.
Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.
She’s a great writer! Couldn’t agree more that what we think of as “innovation”, really is theft and middleman insertion.
It’s not “disruption through innovation” it’s “disruption through having a bottomless war chest of other people’s money to throw on the fire of your economic arson.”
And it’s now coming to a government near you!
I am an unabashed media pirate.
I hate how the techpirate ethos of routing around bad legislation has led these techbro assholes to route around any and all legislation that would stop them.
I hate to admit it, but it really is the same ethos taken to it’s most extreme conclusions.
Digital vampirism
I like this phrase. It distills down what the article is getting across perfectly.
Parasitechnology
Steals your essence and then makes you subservient to them.
See the thing is, I’m pro crime, but anti jira.
Any illegal and unethical stuff that goes on and gets found out is always a “glitch” too.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somebody has learned “shareconomy”