You can carefully lift them to the side, but people's inability to think of others being manifested so clearly is making me lose faith in people.
Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.
With user taxi drivers lost their monopolies, the car put horse and buggies out of business, amazon put many retailers out of business etc. etc.
I can't think of one advancement that had 0 negative effects on anybody. I don't even know why someone would argue otherwise, i thought this was a pretty common position in somewhere like HN.
Sure you can say that the overall benefits were easily worth it, but its irrelevant to my point that there is always eggs broken along the way.