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		meghan_rain on March 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livings... > When our butler invitably degrades Why should it? Any more than, say, the global economic system providing us with gasoline at the gas station, which we rely on?

ThrowawayR2 on March 27, 2023 [–]

Rather a dubious choice of analogy since there was a massive gasoline shortage in the US in the 1970s: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/photos-1970...

zamnos on March 27, 2023 | [–]

Is it though? Despite that hiccup in the gasoline supply chain, we're only just now, 50 years later, getting away from the ICE to electric cars.

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