(This post is a work-in-progress. Come back later.)
Nice things we can't have
- Uber apps without video ads
- Uber rides without tablets to blast you with ads
- Gas pumps without ads
- Durable and well-designed, practical products (Instant Pot company fails due to PE brand development strategy)
- Productive conversations on social media
- Going outside in an American city without encountering unwell people
- General-purpose social media with positive externalities
- Successful company exits that create conditions for enduring operation without going hostile against customers or benevolent actors
- Youthful people in political offices
- Young people who own their home
- Human-oriented cities
- Default-literate Americans
- Society even vaguely disabused of organized religion and other magical/deranged thinking
- Food that's actually food, and that's not priced obscenely
- Consensus that we ought not destroy our host planet
- Trust in institutions
- Enough of the “tipping” bullshit in America
- Any Google product enjoyed by its users for being convenient, easy to use, and win-win (RIP Google Domains)