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Re:Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto by ehsankia on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:38PM (#23108676)
> Food delivery existed before “tech companies”

Per-company delivery is not sustainable for anything else than Pizza and a few other fast food places. There was no centralized system like food deliveries. Also, not only is it keeping restaurants alive, it is also providing jobs to many drivers.

> You do know society existed before the year 2000, yes?

Yes, I remember having to pull out my paper map to go anywhere, having to go to video stores to get VHS tapes and not being able to go anywhere without a car. So much more freedom!

Re:Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto by mdkrkeo9 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:49PM (#23108761)
Jobs, restaurants, etc, arbitrary goals of a society. Not legal obligations at all

Freedom from having my agency bent towards pampering the rich while my poorer family can’t pay rent and goto a doctor is the freedom I’m after

Freedom is a word. The definition is flexible. Your bouncing around the world easy peasy and not having to learn to cook is not an obligation everyone has to enable through grand scale effort

Especially when the vast majority doing the work can’t afford it themselves

So much freedom for them! being your bellhop every day

Omg a paper map and a first world problems of VHS! Better silo the masses cash to produce iPhones for this burdened creature (don’t forget to charge margins that enable you to buy new a Ferrari every day for life, make them design and build it and pay you for the privilege)

This is some disingenuous bullshit. The western world, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday’s creature comforts are today’s burdens of invention. Omg!