[ohnotthatguy]

You know I did pack my bags, bailed on Silicon Beach, (Silicon Beeeeyaaatch!!!) and moved to bum-fuck nowhere. It actually cost me a considerable amount of money to sew up all my affairs. (cancel contracts, get rid of a lease, make arrangements) It's incredibly cost-prohibitive to break a routine in an American city, and relocate. It took some clever bureaucracy hacks, negotiating a complex sea of contingencies, and ultimately a good deal of material sacrifice to make it happen. The 'rat race' is not exactly 'designed' at all. As an inadvertent consequence, it is not designed to allow one to leave it easily.

It seems that you view these services, which are luxuries, as options for the people that have to provide these services in order to survive in the modern American urban environment. They generally can't afford these luxuries. Nobodies blaming, or complaining about tech companies providing services. People are blaming tech companies and complaining about the effects of tech companies arbitraging value from economic systems that already existed, further increasing the concentration of wealth (which is ostensibly access to resources) among those who can already afford to invest in building the mechanisms to arbitrage said value. And, quite frankly, some of us are getting annoyed with people who defend companies that actually influence legislature on local and national levels to enable this arbitrage to the detriment of the citizenship of these regions, while shoving advertising, and news stories in our faces, labeling this arbitrage as the quintessential if not sole definition of human progress.

Also, this article was comedy, and hilarious.