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You forgot “cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels.”
I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.
Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.
Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.
Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.
Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.
The solution to the taxi problem is not Uber, it’s functional public transport. I’m nearing 40 and I’ve taken probably less than 20 cab rides in my home country in my life (traveling to countries with poor public transport is a different story). And I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
Airbnb is trickier. It’s done good things for travelling, but terrible things for housing affordability in popular locations. Tourist towns have priced out locals because investors buy apartments to rent out via some broker.
Almost as if it’s not the commodities that are the problem, but the economy they operate. 🧐
I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.
They always where. Except in big touristic cities. There everything still is shit.
So nothing changed. We went from shit taxis and hotels to shit taxis and hotels complemented with shit uber and shit airbnb.
Ssdd.
I’ve never really had problems with taxis and hotels from the late 90s-2010s, only if I had a language barrier or a unique circumstance, mostly all my hotel problems involved other guests. Hotels were definitely cheaper I’d prefer to go back to that.
Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that’s way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.
Calling AirBnB “a hotel chain” is an insult to hotels.
Hotels don’t require you to clean somebody else’s house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn’t even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.
Money for criminals*
Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.
Yeah I still stand by the technology (Eth and other smart coins, not Bitcoin), but there’s just so much bullshit surrounding the tech that it makes it really unpalatable and trashy
In case any of you are confused about what these are supposed to be:
Uber/Lyft
AirBnB
Bitcoin
ChatGPT
Doorbell camera surveillance network
all money is fake tho?
Feel free to give me any of your fake money.
robux is also fake money, but i dont want to give you my robux.
Let me know when your Robux can buy a gallon of milk.
Seems like one of these things is not like the other to me…
Oh boy we’ve engaged nerd mode, my favorite!
Robux technically are just as legitimate as dollars it’s just we arbitrarily do not accept robux for milk because it’s new (aka not “legal tender”). If you want legal money, you’ll have to specify lmao
That seems to be the original point of this chain, am I wrong?
Edit: technically legitimate not meaning backed but as legitimate as any other made up tradable token, aka crypto. It might be more correct for me to say robux are technically as legitimate as crypto, but I’m not entirely sure right now about the exact phrasing I want to use.
Fine, feel free to give me both your illegitimate dollars and robux.
If they’re not legitimate, you won’t be needing them for anything… unless this is a meaning of ‘legitimate’ I was previously unaware of.
“Fake money for criminals” The US dollar has been around for quite some time…
I misread “Illegal crab company” and was so confused.
- User-stocked adictive digital social circle.
- Digital news media sources using Pavlovian click-response headlines.
- Human subconscious-targetting product promotion systems.
- Automated individual tracking and digital-model building systems.
I’ll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers
Can we have option 4?
-Love all the disruption and none of the intended product
Edit: or the option where I can count…
Image Transcription: Twitter Poll
Adam Kotsko, @adamkotsko
What’s your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company [16%]
Illegal hotel chain [17%]
Fake money for criminals [32%]
Plagiarism machine [35%]
