You forgot "cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels."
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So, Internet cable TV
I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.
Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.
Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.
Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.
Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.
When you call a cab it was often a game of 'will the can actually show up?"
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of stumbling home drunk in the dark because my cab never came.
I have fond memories of sitting drunk on a driveway waiting for the promised cab for hours. Because if they drive up and didn't see you, they were gone.
Don’t forget they take you the long way and go slow
Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that's way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.
In Italy taxis are a monopoly and uber is forbidden. For a 1h ride they ask you 120-150€. Luckily by train you can do the same ride quicker and for 5-10 euro.
Uber and Airbnb DID break that monopoly but they got their competative advantage by simply breaking the laws that existing taxis and hotels were required to adhear too. Still do break those laws but weight of cash > law.
Laws that the taxi and hotel companies lobbied for to stop competition.
And also (for Airbnb at least) regular zoning laws meant to prevent subletting and the loss of affordable housing to illegal hotels.
Almost as if it’s not the commodities that are the problem, but the economy they operate. 🧐
I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.
They always where. Except in big touristic cities. There everything still is shit.
So nothing changed. We went from shit taxis and hotels to shit taxis and hotels complemented with shit uber and shit airbnb.
Ssdd.
I've never really had problems with taxis and hotels from the late 90s-2010s, only if I had a language barrier or a unique circumstance, mostly all my hotel problems involved other guests. Hotels were definitely cheaper I'd prefer to go back to that.
Calling AirBnB "a hotel chain" is an insult to hotels.
Hotels don't require you to clean somebody else's house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn't even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.
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Doorbell camera surveillance network
My favorite is still "Human Misery Threshold" for businesses
Cause nobody ever committed crimes for USD?
When you do it with a computer it's patentable and turns into a billion dollar business.
That's not the point of that particular claim.
It's actually embarrassing that we live in a world where people don't know crypto is for money laundering, whores, and drugs.
Crypto is mainly for speculation.
Money laundering, drugs and prostitution is commonly done in other currencies.
Yes, you should feel at least a bit embarrassed.
I'll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers
Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.
"Fake money for criminals" The US dollar has been around for quite some time...
all money is fake tho?
Feel free to give me any of your fake money.
robux is also fake money, but i dont want to give you my robux.
Let me know when your Robux can buy a gallon of milk.
Seems like one of these things is not like the other to me...
Oh boy we've engaged nerd mode, my favorite!
Robux technically are just as legitimate as dollars it's just we arbitrarily do not accept robux for milk because it's new (aka not "legal tender"). If you want legal money, you'll have to specify lmao
That seems to be the original point of this chain, am I wrong?
Edit: technically legitimate not meaning backed but as legitimate as any other made up tradable token, aka crypto. It might be more correct for me to say robux are technically as legitimate as crypto, but I'm not entirely sure right now about the exact phrasing I want to use.
Fine, feel free to give me both your illegitimate dollars and robux.
If they're not legitimate, you won't be needing them for anything... unless this is a meaning of 'legitimate' I was previously unaware of.
I added an edit that covers the tradable token part.
Their point is they don't want to give you anything because, per the nerdy ass phrasing, those fake tokens are also tradable for things of minor interest, which is more interesting to have than not have. So why give away the tokens for free?
Their original point is just that money is made up (aka that it only has agreed upon socially determined value)
It's as made up as morals and language and all sorts of other things that we only all agree on has meaning to us as a society.
Oh boy you're not gonna like my stance on morals :)
And I'm not sure if I should get into my philosophy on language... But, si je parle en francais a tu, it's as useful as if I hadn't talked at all to you all, because (assuming you don't already know French, if you do, replace the example with a language that you do not know and the point still stands) French is a social construct amongst the French, not amongst English speakers. So therefore, different constructs have different values in different contexts.
I guess my wandering point here (because I absolutely agree still with the original poster that money is a made up social construct) is that even though you value money more than robux, it doesn't give money any more legitimacy, it's just you've decided one is more useful than the other based on the necessities of society. That is not a wrong thing to do, by all means, you need money and not robux to survive in common society, but it does cover up the nature of things in that money is technically just as legitimate a token as robux.
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no money has inherit value, but we give it value. just like crypto.
really what is the actual difference? just because crypto is not backed by a corrupt government?
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Plagirized reddit
Self-driving road killer machines.
Money for criminals*
Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.
Yeah I still stand by the technology (Eth and other smart coins, not Bitcoin), but there's just so much bullshit surrounding the tech that it makes it really unpalatable and trashy
Me too. As long as there's a demand for services that can't be paid for in regular currency, crypto will be around.
Not many people commenting the fake money for criminals lol.
I thought it was pretty cool when I used it to buy drugs.
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I misread "Illegal crab company" and was so confused.
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