• hddsx@lemmy.ca
      76·
      1 month ago

      Because you have 2/4 general terms:

      1. Rideshare
      2. Short term rentals
      3. Crypto
      4. LLM
      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        38·
        1 month ago

        “Rideshare” is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren’t sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          4·
          1 month ago

          Taxis/cabs are legal. Also, perhaps because of age, I tend to view taxis and cabs as phone numbers you call for a car to show up (or go to a taxi stand), whereas I see rideshare as reserve via an app.

          I think ride share really just means a vehicle that is used not solely for commercial purposes

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            22·
            1 month ago

            They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the “rideshare” companies is that they don’t. We should just call them “unregulated taxis” rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

            • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              1 month ago

              I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

              I’d like to point out this probably would have taken another 10-15 years to achieve had it not been for the disruption of said ridesharing apps.

              • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 month ago

                Just because there’s a inconvenience for consumers doesn’t mean you make workers suffer instead of fixing the problem.

                • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  I’m assuming/ hoping you mean the taxi drivers when you say workers.

                  I empathize with anyone who’s livelihood is affected by changes in society. But stagnating progress because someone somewhere will be negatively impacted only assures no progress will ever be made.

          • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
            6·
            1 month ago

            I use a local cab company. They smartened up after getting crushed by uber in the first couple years of their existence. Now they have an app that’s similar to uber, but I just call and use the web link that shows me where the car is.

            It’s literally the same service, but I have to give my info to Uber’s app to get it.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Uber/Lyft

      Airbnb

      Apart from the recently added surge pricing, what else is illegal about these 2?

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        14·
        1 month ago

        dependent on where you are, they are textbook skirting the law. uber got crushed when they launched in sweden because taxi drivers need to do basically the same training as bus drivers. it’s an extra letter on your license, with all that entails of age limits, theory and practical tests, x amount of time driven a year etc.

        nowadays ubers in sweden are just taxis, which hilariously means that they by law have to have a price list on the cars. which basically kneecaps their entire business model.

      • Eq0@literature.cafe
        13·
        1 month ago

        Taxis and hotels used to be strongly regulated industries. For both, permits were required as well as regular checks. But Uber/Lyft/Airbnb created a system outside of the standard legal framework, allowing them to run an almost lawless business. So I wouldn’t say illegal but ethically grey.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          oic, I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference where relevant laws are either pretty lax or inadequately executed.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    60·
    1 month ago

    I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

      You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

  • brewery@feddit.uk
    28·
    1 month ago

    How about

    • reinventing trains but worse
    • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
    • we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
    • we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
    • we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
    • we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 month ago

    It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      sometimes

      and sometimes firearms are used in defense.

      do the valid reason justify the illicit reasons? you’ll certainly say they do but I’m a bit more undecided.

    • jeffep@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Even and especially in those cases cryptocoins are a very bad idea. Just because it’s “a” solution doesn’t mean it’s a good one

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 month ago

    Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?

    Where’s “removal of a common phone feature, because if you don’t buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you’ll be okay with a pair of raycons”?

    • acantharea@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 month ago

      Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!

      Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?

    • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 month ago

      well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
      and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
      … maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
      fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE

  • maplesaga@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 month ago

    Fake money for criminals is speaking of USD here?

    Just because it grows at 8% doesnt mean its fake, its also fake because the Fed is a corrupt institution that stopped caring about measuring real inflation a long time ago.

    • mcv@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 month ago

      Crypto currency. Bit coin’s primary use case is crime, money laundering, drugs, assassination, ransomware. For normal transactions, it’s too slow and expensive, but for crime, that’s not a problem.

      Also, USD is not a recent tech innovation.

      • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        For normal transactions, it’s too slow and expensive, but for crime, that’s not a problem.

        I’m no lover of Bitcoin, but this is just false. Using the Lightning Network (basically a Layer 2 application on top), transactions are near instant and cost only pennies.

        Using the Ethereum network and L2s, which has an energy expenditure less than that of your dishwasher, you can move money instantly and for basically fee. There’s a reason big corporations like Visa and countless others are heavily investing in and building on Ethereum: it’s faster and cheaper than legacy tradfi rails. Also, it’s a pretty good way to get aid to Gaza and other war-ravaged countries, pay for privacy-respecting email and VPNs, etc.

        primary use case is crime, money laundering, drugs, assassination, ransomware

        In fact, crypto has moved on from 2009-era use cases: https://ethereumadoption.com/usecases/

        • mcv@lemmy.zip
          1·
          1 month ago

          I admit I haven’t been keeping up recently. These are relatively new changes then. I remember when a transaction cost $25 and 7 minutes. (Or was it the other way around?) In any case, that wasn’t practical for anyone except organised crime, which is largely where it got that reputation. And the fact that crime is still a major user.

          • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            These are relatively new changes then

            Not really. Lightning has been around for many years. Ethereum transitioned to Proof of Stake back in 2022. Layer 2s on Ethereum went live in 2021-2023, continuing on and ever expanding up until today.

            I remember when a transaction cost $25 and 7 minutes

            For Bitcoin mainnet, this may still be the case, however in practicality 1) that’s still faster than tradfi settlement times (ACH takes 5-7 days to settle), 2) depending on the amount of money you’re moving, $25 might be very cheap, 3) most people will use Lightning if they value speed and cheap fees. With Ethereum, block times are every 12 seconds or something like that. So actually it’s not only fast but very consistent. Fees [on Ethereum] have been very cheap since blockspace demand has been muted the past couple years, however like Bitcoin most people prefer to use Layer 2s

            In any case, that wasn’t practical for anyone except organised crime

            that’s just simply not true.

            And the fact that crime is still a major user.

            I’ve got news for you, tradfi ain’t much better. Regardless, there’s a large and growing list of use cases that don’t involve “crime”: https://ethereumadoption.com/built-on-ethereum?view=byEntity. Exchanges, lending and borrowing, mortgages, insurance, derivatives, pay day loans, no-loss lotteries, social media, collectables, identification, certifications, streaming salaries, …