Fair point. I guess everyone has to make their decision themselves according to their situation.

Gas jockeys served the public. We don't grow/kill our own food, we buy from vendors who sell to the public.

It's poor form to invite someone to dinner at your house, then make them cook it when they arrive.

That's where the line is drawn. Not having a personal valet-silent-t isn't doing someone else's job. It was never a position to begin with.

I'm trying, but I can't fathom what point you think you're making comparing the living standards of plebes to the Queen of England's unless you were born to landowners during apartheid or are a current member of the Saudi royal family.

What if the "line" you draw is that you only support technologies that shift labor from human to machine, and not human to another human that doesn't get paid. Would that work?

I absolutely refuse to put gas in my car. Thank God for New Jersey. Gasoline is dangerous and I have no idea why we should let people pump their own. I can't imagine how many people smoke while pumping their own gas outside of lovely New Jersey...

Gasoline is absolutely not that dangerous, at least relative to the risk involved every time one drives a car. For igniting gasoline fumes, a spark is almost always necessary. Realistically speaking, a lit cigarette has a better chance of setting a nearby trash can on fire than igniting the gasoline fumes. If a person were to spark a lighter to light a cigarette that'd be a different story.

https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2010/03/gas-pump_fire_that...

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