• hddsx@lemmy.ca
      77·
      10 days ago

      Because you have 2/4 general terms:

      1. Rideshare
      2. Short term rentals
      3. Crypto
      4. LLM
      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        38·
        10 days ago

        “Rideshare” is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren’t sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          5·
          10 days ago

          Taxis/cabs are legal. Also, perhaps because of age, I tend to view taxis and cabs as phone numbers you call for a car to show up (or go to a taxi stand), whereas I see rideshare as reserve via an app.

          I think ride share really just means a vehicle that is used not solely for commercial purposes

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            22·
            10 days ago

            They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the “rideshare” companies is that they don’t. We should just call them “unregulated taxis” rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

            • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              9 days ago

              I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

              I’d like to point out this probably would have taken another 10-15 years to achieve had it not been for the disruption of said ridesharing apps.

              • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 days ago

                Just because there’s a inconvenience for consumers doesn’t mean you make workers suffer instead of fixing the problem.

                • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  9 days ago

                  I’m assuming/ hoping you mean the taxi drivers when you say workers.

                  I empathize with anyone who’s livelihood is affected by changes in society. But stagnating progress because someone somewhere will be negatively impacted only assures no progress will ever be made.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    56·
    10 days ago

    I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 days ago

      On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

      You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

  • brewery@feddit.uk
    28·
    9 days ago

    How about

    • reinventing trains but worse
    • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
    • we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
    • we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
    • we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
    • we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 days ago

    It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      sometimes

      and sometimes firearms are used in defense.

      do the valid reason justify the illicit reasons? you’ll certainly say they do but I’m a bit more undecided.

    • jeffep@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      Even and especially in those cases cryptocoins are a very bad idea. Just because it’s “a” solution doesn’t mean it’s a good one

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    10 days ago

    What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    20·
    9 days ago

    Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?

    Where’s “removal of a common phone feature, because if you don’t buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you’ll be okay with a pair of raycons”?

    • acantharea@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 days ago

      Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!

      Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?

    • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      10 days ago

      well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
      and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
      … maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
      fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 days ago

      I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE