What makes you say that China's closed/censored society is directly at odds with Google's products?

You'd probably do a cheaper and better job just spending 15 minutes browsing youtube, then calling your buddy in Macedonia.

Sure, if many of your competitors aren’t already doing that.

Watching that was worse than August Underground's Mordum.

I'm surprised no-one in this entire thread has even mentioned the possibility that autism, OCD, ADHD, etc. might be, in part, caused by such streams of nonsense.

Human sociality needs to be boostrapped. Kids watching this all-day-every-day are /definitely/ gonna grow up funny. Why do you think daycare costs more than a mortage?

The article mixes its message a bit between automation/disruption/capital. One couldn't really say that Uber is in the business of automation. The capital/labor distinction is more productive, but since it is derived from marxism no one actually uses it.

I'm starting to get the impression that this genre of "technology gone bad" article is starting to be a safe surrogate for talking about class. The muddling of terms is actually a feature: one can avoid the dirty reality of class by framing it as an inherent feature of technological progress, which, of course, is a good in-and-of-itself (unless you're a dirty commie).

I think the same is true of immigration: low class people blame their poor condition on immigrants, rather than their class standing.

Actually here on this site is where I've read many times that automation is Uber's destination and that when they get there they will truly have attained their goal.

> The capital/labor distinction is more productive, but since it is derived from marxism no one actually uses it.

Capital and labour are very standard notions in economics (and go back at least to Adam Smith).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(economics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_(economics)

One extra consideration here is that as power centralizes, the costs of individual mistakes increases.

You can put all your energy into paddling a canoe, but if it's still tied to the dock you're going nowhere.

> working more hours gives you more experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

This is what is called the ideology of no ideology.

A small cadre of elite economists that convened as the Mont Pelerin Society (led by Hayek) called themselves neoliberals for a bit but stopped using the term.

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