▲ 982 ▼ Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com) submitted 5 days ago by BillionaireStew@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 481 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 child) Fuck the fucking idiots who ruined this permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) Our species, at all times, consists of some probably relatively consistent percentage of what you'd probably call idiots. I would say that if some social experiment like this is tried, and it fails because too great a percentage of people are "idiots", it's really the thing they're trying that isn't suitable for us. It seems a little upside down to blame the people something is made for being the ones poorly suited to it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) Our species, at all times, consists of some probably relatively consistent percentage of what you'd probably call idiots. I would say that if some social experiment like this is tried, and it fails because too great a percentage of people are "idiots", it's really the thing they're trying that isn't suitable for us. It seems a little upside down to blame the people something is made for being the ones poorly suited to it. permalink fedilink source parent