People love talking about how capitalism is efficient. If that's true, then why the fuck do we have hundreds of people doing the same work at different companies to achieve the exact same goal of having shit delivered to your place?
In a better world we'd develop one open source solution, constantly improve it for everybody and fork it for local specific needs. Maybe another team could come up with a replacement a few years in, once a clear advantage is visible using better tech, for example.
In a world where we're not enslaved by starvation wages I'd love to take a day of the week to deliver food for my fellow neighbors. Then another day to work on the latest requested feature in the delivery system.
Just type "delivery" on your app store to see what I'm talking about.
Don’t worry they’ll consolidate to two and then work non competes for certain terf. That way everywhere you go it will only be one and they can price gouge you because they already bought off those local politicians.
When offerup and letgo combined, the resulting product sucks ass. They don't even let you write out reviews for people anymore. You can only press buttons for "showed up on time" or whatever. The search results are clogged with dark-pattern entries that redirect you to some external website
I wouldn't say everything given recent history (and being a libertarian)
I agree with you, sadly the current open and free software movements suck :( See:
- https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html
- https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/02/11/not-any-purpose.html
Thanks for the links, those were some good reads. And damn Stallman is a piece of shit and I wasn't aware of it.
Isn't this what the "great reset" shit is all about, everyone becoming gig workers?
A big part of it. But this is for low wage workers right now. Eventually they want all employees as gig workers and they want all the items you use to be rented.
In the free society of the future all items you use being "rented" would make good sense. It would utilise resources more efficiently and let you use quality products instead of cheap ones. Instead of everyone owning a shitty cheap power drill to drill holes one a year, people would just go to the store and check out a good drill when they needed to. Maybe they would order it online and have a drone deliver it.
That would make sense under socialism but in the current capitalist system renting everything would just make a few oligarchs distastefully rich while making everyone else less free.
Yeah it would create a market where they could price gouge when people need those items. Like what happened with electricity in Texas. Except if you want to keep using that power tool it’s going to cost $400 this month because everyone’s pipes burst so a lot of people need that. Capitalism always ends in disaster.
Maybe it's harder to unionize if there's a new exact same app every day, so that's why
it was nice when there was like 1 or 2 streaming services and they acted as a library of content instead of a vehicle for trashy "original series" but that wasn't profitable enough :/
I love using multiple anti-user, dark pattern laced apps all micro optimized to rip off me, the driver, and the restaurant!
I'm just waiting for the weed delivery app. HMU when capitalism innovates that.
that's not a thing yet? you'd have thought weed maps would have been all on that shit
And maybe Uber. Unless the Saudi money stops flowing in, which I doubt it will.
you mean some kind of system that allows people to "post" letters and packages?
it will have 20 original series with identical plots and characters generated by an AI
