Who is this particular flavor of wanker?

who needs democracy when you have technology, right?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet William Shakespeare

Surelly it's at minimum a post about shit, so posting it here is kinda like going to a meeting of Alcholics, Anonymous only to find out it's actually a bar where nobody knows your name.

My thought is that it’s devoid of nuance (part of what makes it funny) so therefore it’s shitty?

I only use Lenny from the toilet on company time. By this definition, everything is a shit post

I agree. Set prices are a game changer especially if you are visiting in another country. Drivers are less likely to rip off tourists and communication is a lot better.

The crab people from South Park didn't renew their T-Mobile authorized retail license again?

Pediculosis pubis

years ago, a big boss of an evil hotel company I worked was doing a AMA and got asked "where do we draw the line on ethics?". His answer was "at the end of the day, if you don't feel comfortable telling your mother what you did today, then don't do it" I loved this answer and used this very often.

Then a few months later, he directly made us work on the dirtiest geopricing / yelding features I ever saw. I guess the real question to ask during that day was "where do your mother draw the line on ethics?"

Disney has for gatekeeping media,

Disney hired real artists. Their artists did such amazing work that everyone copied Disney which caused the gatekeeping. Nothing stopped artist from not copying Disney to create their own works like Pixar before they were bought by Disney. AI art comes from training on existing art. So its not expanding culture to cut and paste existing art. It's a great time saver for home users to create art that is out of their ability. But its not a substitute for real artists.

The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.

Which existed because to prevent congestion, accountability against criminal acts, and maintained an employee/employer relationship. Despite its drawbacks, employees have more rights than gig economy workers.

I guess what's next is an app Airplane company that ignores all regulations and lands on parking lots because it will be cheaper than following the laws. So what if a few people die if tens of thousands save money and have more convenience.

Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person

Its far more easy to trace money in a bank account or made through a credit card than crypto. In most cases crypto is completely untraceable until turned into real money that's deposited into a bank.

Gen AI will erode all originality and make any kind of career in the arts impossible.

The cheaper taxis are only possible on the backs of people who don't understand car depreciation or the fact they don't have any kind of pension or social security benefits. The gig economy is a scam.

There's tons of crypto coins that don't have a ledger. None of them have regulations.