Reply #8: This Is Happening Across The Board w/People On the Creative End

[NashVegas]

Computers, media, and who all knows what else.

People who are engaged on the labor end of a creative endeavor are the lowest of the low. What we understand about architecture, our vision, and how things are put together mean nothing if we aren't also the cat who's making deals and bringing in the dollars.

The way I see it, software engineers - those people who made it possible for so many jobs to be automated and human talents and judgment to count for jack shit - have a lot of karma points against them right about now. All this automating has mostly served people who are incompetent at everything except office politics.

As for your immediate problem: I'd just refuse to order online.