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Re:Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving be... by _DeadFred_ on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:50PM (#42700918)
This is how all the tech bro mass management of people systems work. Do away with any customer service, throw away randos impacted by any situations outside the norm because your system is large enough to keep the needed critical mass even without those people. Scale over nuanced edge cases to minimize cost/friction/complexity.

The future world will become more and more brittle/brutal for us randos because we are 100% disposable in the future tech bro libertarian dystopia. If any situation puts us outside their standard use cases and automated support systems ability to resolve issues we are purged from the system. And when all of society is manage by those types of systems you are hit.

Re:Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving be... by r00fus on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:42PM (#42701815)
Plot twist: at some point in our lives we're all in the "randos" group. So these policies are default inhumane to some portion of the populace all the time.
Re:Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving be... by _DeadFred_ on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:02PM (#42702097)
That's the fun part.