He deplores those poor cabbies? I deplore all those poor riders who couldn't hail cabs and had to choose between worse and worst options because of the cabbies' government imposed monopoly. (What do you do when you can't hail a cab? Wait for hours? Walk? Ride for hours on public transit that goes everywhere but your destination? Give up on going where you need to go?)
Just like (apparently) most others here, I seem to use Facebook mostly to keep in touch with my family and (close?) friends. I unfollow pretty much everyone but my mom and wife. Facebook turned me on to adblock when they kept showing me ads for a degree when I had already earned that same degree from a better local school (and put it in my info on Facebook - so they were basically shamelessly ripping of the advertiser.) Those things make Facebook about a weekly experience now for me. I keep in touch professionally on LinkedIn.
For better or worse, I get my news on Hacker News moreso than any other place. I don't really even bother with the New York Times or Wall Street Journal any more. Everything in the news lately seems designed to appeal to outrage, and I don't want to participate in that anymore.
> For better or worse, I get my news on Hacker News moreso than any other place. I don't really even bother with the New York Times or Wall Street Journal any more. Everything in the news lately seems designed to appeal to outrage, and I don't want to participate in that anymore.
I've done the same for news. I can attest that I'm generally happier for it. I can sometimes see when someone is looking to talk to me with news induced outage. I'm learning how to give neutral answers that don't feed any fires, unless I believe I'll actually get a thoughtful and considerate conversation.
Regarding Uber, his argument wasn't so much "poor cabbies" on its own, but seemed to be more like "look at where the money is going, it's going out of the economy and into investors, growth".
So, poor cabbies is one thing, but it would be more about the redistribution of wealth from a community of people to a company. Uber is not a ride sharing service, it's a business model.
The article makes clear his view: If we think short sighted that it's only good for getting rides - we are missing the point. And he says that much about digital natives - they miss the point.
He deplores those poor cabbies? I deplore all those poor riders who couldn't hail cabs and had to choose between worse and worst options because of the cabbies' government imposed monopoly. (What do you do when you can't hail a cab? Wait for hours? Walk? Ride for hours on public transit that goes everywhere but your destination? Give up on going where you need to go?)
Just like (apparently) most others here, I seem to use Facebook mostly to keep in touch with my family and (close?) friends. I unfollow pretty much everyone but my mom and wife. Facebook turned me on to adblock when they kept showing me ads for a degree when I had already earned that same degree from a better local school (and put it in my info on Facebook - so they were basically shamelessly ripping of the advertiser.) Those things make Facebook about a weekly experience now for me. I keep in touch professionally on LinkedIn.
For better or worse, I get my news on Hacker News moreso than any other place. I don't really even bother with the New York Times or Wall Street Journal any more. Everything in the news lately seems designed to appeal to outrage, and I don't want to participate in that anymore.