[oblio]

Are you shocked that techbros (and especially their CEO leaders) are misanthropists? We have probably empowered the most society adverse group of people in human history. Ones that didn't even need to speak to other humans to become rich.

[boston_clone]

no, not shocked; just willing to check that perspective more publicly than most.

the vonnegut quote is hitting hard today -

“why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”

[tavavex]

Is this quote from a book, or just something the author had said?

It pains me to say, but I feel like the world the author is talking about is being extinguished. Soon enough we all will be 'computer people'.