| ▲ | jimmaswell a day ago |
| Her "cause" of making everyone's lives worse by delaying food delivery? Why would I ever support this? |
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| ▲ | nickthegreek a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| The food delivery vehicle was on the pedestrian path where the pedestrian wanted to be. Why didn’t it turn around and go another way? That is what peole do when sidewalks are jammed up by whatever event might be happening. Was she following it around and blocking it from every direction? Making contact in any way? Go back across the street and get on with it. |
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| ▲ | UberFly a day ago | parent [-] | | "Was she following it around and blocking it from every direction?" According to the article, yes. |
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| ▲ | tuveson a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| These things are pretty big and Philly sidewalks are narrow enough with just regular pedestrian traffic. Incidentally, I’ve only seen these things in relatively high-foot traffic areas too. This is just tech companies seeing what they can get away with, as usual. |
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| ▲ | left-struck a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Regardless of whether you or I think it’s a worthy cause, I’m just pointing out that the police amplified her voice. |
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| ▲ | antonvs a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You might support it if you were a food delivery worker, or someone else whose jobs are at immediate risk from automation. Or if you had any empathy for those people. |
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| ▲ | jimmaswell a day ago | parent [-] | | Demanding the world halt progress and do something inefficiently just to give you a bullshit job is not a position that engenders my empathy | | |
| ▲ | tavavex 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That can be said about any job that gets automated, ever. Unless you as the one bringing along more efficiency are willing to share the fruits of that increased efficiency with the people you're displacing, they will demand you halt progress, yes. It's shocking, but most people aren't very fond of becoming homeless or starving. There's a world where efficiency gains benefit us more evenly, but it's not the one we live in. So of course the best play for the common worker being automated away with nowhere else to go is to reject it as much as possible. | |
| ▲ | majorchord 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I certainly don't think that calling someone's job "bullshit" could be construed as a display of empathy. | | |
| ▲ | jimmaswell 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | A job is bullshit if it's wasting resources duplicating the work of a machine without good reason. Replacing excavators with teams of shovelers would be a bullshit job, but the same job wouldn't have been bullshit before excavators. | | |
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