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kleinbl00  ·  1696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The bounty of the tech industry

    In this short essay, he made just a few simple claims.

Oh, come now. He argued that technology was an unalloyed good by deliberately devaluing everything lost. You can't say "no one earnestly disputed this claim" when I have a 500-word essay on food deserts and the annihilation of commerce.

You can't restate the argument as if no one answered your complaints last time. "Profit comes from revenue, and revenue comes from customers" and profits and revenue are not a piece of the civil experience in any way shape or form. THAT is the beef. Like when he just whooshed the fuck over the Muckraker movement and why they existed.