[LINK] Google Wallet, Hate and Gloating in Forbes

[Richard Chirgwin]

One of the most inexplicable (to me, anyhow) and repellent (ditto) 
characteristics of well-off, well-educated, well-paid people is this 
vicious, festering, burning, self-righteous resentment they harbour 
against people below them on the ladder.

"Paying these minimum-wage salaries is sapping my wealth! This must end! 
You, asshole*, you're just being poor at me on *purpose*!"

(*it is, after all, a characteristically American trait; albeit one 
that's exported via toxic religious-political philosophies).

I'm really sick of people thinking I should raise my hands in praise of 
someone devoting great intelligence, opportunity and education to the 
elimination of all possible employment for those without the same gifts; 
parading this as virtue; and demanding my applause.  And, of course, 
having unemployed all these people, the same kind of person will also 
complain like a two-year-old denied ice cream, over any expenditure of 
any type whatever to actually feed them.

RC

On 18/12/11 7:32 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> When I read this article I was instantly reminded of a funny line from
> the Cohen Brothers film "Burn after Reading" when one of the
> characters says "you´re worse than a moron, you´re part of a League of
> Morons".
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/09/26/google-launches-the-ultimate-jobs-killer/2/
>
> Watch out for gloating about "killing unproductive jobs", and snide
> remarks on supermarket employees and, of course, government, who
> apparently can train people but "only so much" (ie there´s little
> point in training idiots, seems to be his angle).
>
> btw: his entire reasoning is flawed, he can´t just scan barcodes and
> walk away with his merchandise, because who will check he paid for
> everything he bought?, guess he will have to unload everything again.
> ;)
>
> The solution to his "Problems" (if one can call it that) are two:
>
> 1. Web sites and home delivery. I don´t know about the US of A but
> down here all major supermarket chains have web sites where you can
> order stuff and have it delivered, in some instances the same day, in
> others the next day, for really little cost. In two instances you pay
> on-line, in other the delivery cleak that arrives to your home carries
> a posnet card reader that works wirelessly (a card swiper connected
> via GSM/3G)
>
> 2. RFID tags built into every packing container of stuff you buy at
> the supermarket. That would really help the supermarket tally
> everything you´re walking away without the tedious unloading-reloading
> of stuff. But in this approach the cashier at the supermarket would
> keep his job (it has to, anyway, for people that would still pay
> cash).
>
> 3. In other words, payment is NOT the delay, so Google Wallet or
> no-wallet doesn´t make any difference with regards to the "tedious
> process" of groceries shopping that this guy complains about.
>
> FC