thewhitestguy

I think everyone has called their bank or cable company at least once or twice and found themselves lost in a Kafkaesque loop of not being able to get done what they needed and have subconsciously written 'bots' off as incapable of helping them perform a task, and/or an executive excuse to put tens of thousands of call center employees out of work. Just because it's on a website and the dialpad is replaced with words doesn't mean it's different.

Whether or not anyone wants to admit it, the whole "talking to robots" thing... I mean, the world is already empty and lonely enough without adding another layer of "inexorability" to the processes we engage in, in order to accomplish pretty basic tasks.

Oh no! Some people, serving a corporation, who would leverage someone's work in their business processes to a profit without compensating the author of the work, have an opinion, which they take very seriously, on the manner in which the author of the work should license the free work so that they can legally use that free work in the manner l that works best for them!?!?! :O

Ya'll get so lost in the process of exploitation that you forget you're actually exploiting people.

Investors don't have to invest in a company with a structure of which they feel could be detrimental to the company's bottom line over time.

California.