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    The average moron is a human being. If corporations paid their fair of taxes and didn’t just suck blood from the public in terms of bankruptcy, killing jobs, and subsidies than maybe they might have a place among human foot traffick. But as long as the bots enjoy rights and privlages that humans are not afforded they can all fucking burn. This isnt innovation this is the death of the human mind and soul.

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      Yeah you’re right, funneling more money to the benevolent overlords who own Uber, Doordash, etc. and exploit economically marginalized individuals instead of robots, including by incentivizing them to do bike deliveries in dangerous heat, is a much more just system. That definitely helps fight the evil of large corporations. /s

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        Don’t be so fucking stupid. We are playing a game of keep your head above water or die in the street in America. Maybe you are in a position that is privileged and comfortable but many Americans don’t have the luxury of being able to pick and choose at their leisure to survive. You think I like uber or corporations look at my comment history? People need to eat. They need to provide for their loved ones and in this country it means doing whatever you can to survive.

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          And the solution to that is Uber Eats? Lol okay, I’M the one who’s in a position of delusional privilege. Get out of here with your Butlerian Jihad, childlike bullshit.

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            You seem dense. What makes you think I’m advocating for uber? I’m advocating for people to have food in a system that wants to eat them alive.

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              You’re literally arguing that the status quo is better because people need to keep their head above water, and some hand wavey nonsense about crushing the human soul because we automated food delivery.

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                Well excuse me let me put it a different way. The status quo is bullshit and we need unions and advocates as opposed to optimistic sociopaths and pedophiles and grifters Nazis thieves and murderers and rapists in positions of authority. Regulate and account.

                But America as yet to do anything like that in a fucking loooooooong time. So until then fellow peaons survive and vote like all our futures depend on it. Beware the cope, release the files.

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                  Yes I agree with all that, but whether we use delivery robots or an extremely unfair gig economy doesn’t change any of it. Robotics manufacturing, support, etc should all be unionized and turned into cooperatives of some sort. I wholeheartedly agree. This is a complete non sequitur; continuing to prop up the current gig economy doesn’t make unionizing any easier.

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                    I agree with that also. It just that I interact with a lot of uber drivers and Lyft drivers and people who have fallen into those predatory systems. They are not sustainable but they are really all a lot of people have. We aren’t at a place in the country right now where anyone is coming to help… yet. There is hope on the horizon but it’s not my fault that the reality is that over and Lyft have successfully usurped the taxi industry with all its regulations into the era of app skirting technological circumvention of said regulation through the onus of it “being the future.”

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          Explain to me how continuing to exploit economically marginalized people with the current gig economy is better without abstract nonsense like “we’re crushing the human soul by using delivery robots.”

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            continuing to exploit economically marginalized people

            Stop twisting my progressive language to suit your ends.

            Removing jobs from these people without giving them anything else in return is economically marginalizing them.

            Not to mention, I just think more people need to be brought face-to-face, through jobs or otherwise, and I genuinely think you’re a bad person if you don’t.

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              And that’s why I’m proposing a ban on heavy machinery in the construction industry! We need to 👏get👏back👏to👏shovels👏. Preach!