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Magic Emotions

March 04, 2015 by Jon Moskowitz in Disruptablog, Random Observations

 

So we saw this Wired video review of Magic, the new text-based delivery start-up in San Francisco, and felt conflicting emotions.

On the one hand, Magic feels like another example of the cheapening of labor in America, a trend that is turning the country into a high-tech luxury hotel where vast armies of room servants cater to the whims of a lucky few, all for low wages with zero job security. It feels entitled and elitist, like Google’s bus service or that time those tech guys tried to reserve space in a public park.

On the other hand, how cool is it that you can text a stranger and have them turn up at your door an hour later with a Mexican wrestler’s mask? It’s the kind of thing that would have blown our 8-year-old, lucha libra-obsessed mind.

So, like we said: emotions.

March 04, 2015 /Jon Moskowitz
apps, delivery, disruptive media lab, dml, Google, Mexican wrestlers, San Francisco, Wired
Disruptablog, Random Observations
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