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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
At the beach a few years ago, we were running up to a corner store to get Q and Fever Tree tonic for drinks (stuff is addictive... so good). A buddy with Prime said we were wasting money. Case of Q arrived two days later. Saved us a bunch of money.
I like the savings, but it kind of creeps me out. People are already “bowling alone,” as that famous book was titled. I think all of this home delivery stuff is making us even less socially connected, and a lot weirder.
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So use the time you save from going to the corner store to chat with your neighbor.
If the price is less, it's possibly because Amazon is the conduit for Wall St investors to subsidize your drinking, but it's more likely that it's cheaper to sell stuff without covering the costs of leaving it at retail locations for a while before it's bought.
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Millennials can’t even hold proper conversations. They get mad if you call them instead of texting. And the even younger kids are still stranger yet.
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OTOH, the new technology enables new community through internet chat boards and the like. You don't have be a Timmy to point out that the communications there become rich in their own weird way.
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If you can’t hold a conversation, you aren’t going anywhere. Unless you’re some freak in Silicon Valley or a quant fund. Tell your kids to become “personality coaches.”
Fucking coaching... That’s another sad development. Executives need coaches? For what? Nobody did that shit in the past. It’s McWork. Fucking nonsense.
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The people I know who have become coaches should not be coaching anyone until they can fix their own lives.
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