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I hate self driving cars and I hate Uber. Although I use them because they’re a bit cheaper and easier to use when you’re slightly socially phobic. Uber should be broken up and/or “refactored” into just a pricing/hailing service bought in by private drivers. It might actually find a proper balance with the market then. But it would make less profit.

I’m not in the US. I do live in a bubble, you’re right about that.

You didn’t read deep enough what I was saying and assumed I was only talking about borders. Borders permit (demand) national currencies. National currencies and their exchange reinforce arbitrary value disparities between countries. Value disparities between currencies are deep systemic racism, and work with border controls to limit QoL improvements and reinforce racial and cultural division. Globalisation as it has been thus-far implemented has been a scourge across the human world, and probably deeper into the material fabric we share. I’m unsurprised to hear your frustration with what it’s done: it’s the sickening profiteering tool of the already-powerful.

A human world that shared more information, allowed easier cultural and people flow, wasn’t gouged by currency exchange value extraction schemes, and focused more on local resource management and honestly dealing with externalities would have some chance of fixing the bigger issues.

I’m a dreamer. The bubble I live on is called Earth.