cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9525207

These results are so backwards. Does literally anyone feel bad for the legal cab companies? lol

I can’t help but feel like all of this is propaganda. Like what’s with people all of a sudden defending Cab Companies, Hotel Chains, the Central Bank (or your countries equivalent), or Copyright law. People rightly complained about all these things but now actually those are all somehow good

People aren’t defending those things. They’re pointing out how these replacements are so much worse.

The replacements aren’t actually worse though. Using Uber/Lyft is far easier and more convenient for all parties involved. (Not saying that equates to morally good though) Using AirBNB for people to vacation in or whatever is a much better experience potentially for a tenant then the sub-par standards of hotels. Cryptocurreny provides freedom of exchange in a digital way while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud. (Doesn’t stop people from getting scammed but the same is true for cash) Copyright laws basically always majorly benefit the corporation who owns it rather then an individual who actually created the thing. I also was a pirate in my younger years and in general believe information should be free and peoples needs should be met so they don’t have to necessarily try to profit off what should be an artistic expression. I don’t think AI will actually replace creativity, some will use it to churn out garbage but that was already true for existing tools for whatever art form you might prefer. A simple example is electronic music, a lot of musicians look down on electronic music artists because it’s not “real music”.