I'm sure they said the same when they saw the first photographs and compared them with paintings.

you might note that people still paint.

Well that also needs to be heavily vilified and taxed.

Since paintings are mostly made by someone they are under income tax which is at least in my country the highest percentage of all taxes. Plus VAT like everything else. A painter this easily pays 60% tax on what you have to pay

Ah yes we should all live in a gray bloc working in a gray factory until the end of time

Vilifying a d taxing any luxury not only is a ludicrous position, it will only make inequality worse. Its not like the 0.1% will renoujce to it, and taxes don't matter to them.

The parent comment you're replying to is a sarcasm.

If you want instant torque with soul, try a horse.

(the catch: this instant is often one which you weren't expecting, and if you are lucky it will mostly have been applied along the craniocaudal axis)

Yet the manual transmission is dying out too.