JA Westenberg on Nostr: The real reason people hate self-checkout isn’t the loss of human contact it’s ...
The real reason people hate self-checkout isn’t the loss of human contact it’s that you pay the same price but do more work, violating our intuitions about fair exchange. It’s like if restaurants charged full price but you had to bus your own table
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