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by BSEdlMMldESB 1081 days ago
> Reddit is a glorified bulletin board

and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok.

> Software eats the world but Silicon Valley manages to find a way to kill off its own creation

I blame capitalism.

digital stuff and capitalism do not mix well. something's gotta give.

but I guess I can also blame digital stuff (the internet); something will give. but which? and what? ....and when???

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> and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok

Uber's trick was claiming for years that it wasn't actually taxi dispatch so it didn't have to be regulated as such.

Regulatory avoidance/evasion enabled Uber to break into tightly controlled taxi markets.

> but I guess I can also blame digital stuff (the internet); something will give. but which? and what? ....and when???

The thing that isn't in someone's "value chain" or whatever euphemism for rent seeking is popular this year.

A venture capital news aggregator seems an odd place to vaguely preach your anti-capitalist views.

Nonetheless, what exactly does capitalism do to make "digital stuff" worse?