[bcOpus]

Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.

[shard972]

I'm just making an observation of the facts, not positing a moral good or bad to progress.

[thecatspaw]

Its not a true oberservation of facts though. Progress is achievable without any breaking of legs

[shard972]

Name one technology disruption that caused no pain for anyone?

With user taxi drivers lost their monopolies, the car put horse and buggies out of business, amazon put many retailers out of business etc. etc.

I can't think of one advancement that had 0 negative effects on anybody. I don't even know why someone would argue otherwise, i thought this was a pretty common position in somewhere like HN.

Sure you can say that the overall benefits were easily worth it, but its irrelevant to my point that there is always eggs broken along the way.