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Re:Against the synchronous society by emodendroket on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:26PM (#16086304)
That's true as far as it goes but I don't see the relevancy. For one thing, I think most of us buy groceries more than we need to interact with a bank clerk or a doctor. But beyond that, if we waved a wand and declared grocery stores were now open between 5:00 and 10:00 PM, we'd just be replacing one tyranny with another (and it would after all be dependent on most customers keeping 9-5 hours). If we just started randomly distributing working days and hours there's no particular guarantee my day off doesn't align with the supermarket's (and anyway the idea that a supermarket isn't time-dependent seems questionable since the whole thing revolves around somewhat time-sensitive deliveries).
Re:Against the synchronous society by jessaustin on Saturday January 06, 2018 @01:00PM (#16086529)
Relevance? You appeared to be in favor of "synchronicity"? I'm against it, because for me it meant going grocery shopping on my lunch break, which was inconvenient. I expect most humans would also find that inconvenient.