> The best part about this is all the current first world countries could deal with that tax increase, and all the developing countries can't.
Well, if your way of dealing with such tax would be to outsource all the "dirty" bits to developing countries where they just don't care, or be like Germany, claiming of being oh so green while buying dirty electricity made from coal from Poland and Czechia, sorry, can't stand behind this.
> dollars spent on automation moved us zero steps in the direction we've been aiming for?
Things do get automated in, say, factories, but not in the everyday life.
When it comes to dealing with some governments who jumped onto this newfangled digitalization bandwagon, it looks like they have taken all the shit parts from the online processes, all the shit parts from the old paper-based processes and jumbled them together into the most abominable, inefficient form ever, while pretending to be so 21st century.
Another thing is the increasing siloization of platforms and APIs moving like quicksand, so if you ever try to integrate stuff to automate some of your workflows, you get into this place where there's constant churn.
And don't get me started on home automation, the only things the existing home automation solutions really automate are frustration and despair.
Well, if your way of dealing with such tax would be to outsource all the "dirty" bits to developing countries where they just don't care, or be like Germany, claiming of being oh so green while buying dirty electricity made from coal from Poland and Czechia, sorry, can't stand behind this.
> dollars spent on automation moved us zero steps in the direction we've been aiming for?
Things do get automated in, say, factories, but not in the everyday life.
When it comes to dealing with some governments who jumped onto this newfangled digitalization bandwagon, it looks like they have taken all the shit parts from the online processes, all the shit parts from the old paper-based processes and jumbled them together into the most abominable, inefficient form ever, while pretending to be so 21st century.
Another thing is the increasing siloization of platforms and APIs moving like quicksand, so if you ever try to integrate stuff to automate some of your workflows, you get into this place where there's constant churn.
And don't get me started on home automation, the only things the existing home automation solutions really automate are frustration and despair.