With wifi-enabled, voice-activated appliances too clever by half, analog, app-free abodes are suddenly tempting A-list L.A. buyers. Welcome to the new “Dumb House.”
Sure, but if it wasn’t for vulture capitalism trying to cut every cent possible, it’d be a minor increase in cost to make these systems degrade gracefully. Then at worst it’d still function as the equivalent ‘dumb’ device.
Without capitalism the increase in cost would be smaller for sure, but depending on the item it would be still meaningful. For example, the dining table from the article still needs a hydraulic system to go up and down, that isn’t exactly cheap.
Instead I feel like the biggest harm of capitalism is shoving the tech even where it doesn’t make sense to have it, and then telling people they need it. You don’t need a smart toilet when a simple button does the trick.
Sure, but if it wasn’t for vulture capitalism trying to cut every cent possible, it’d be a minor increase in cost to make these systems degrade gracefully. Then at worst it’d still function as the equivalent ‘dumb’ device.
Without capitalism the increase in cost would be smaller for sure, but depending on the item it would be still meaningful. For example, the dining table from the article still needs a hydraulic system to go up and down, that isn’t exactly cheap.
Instead I feel like the biggest harm of capitalism is shoving the tech even where it doesn’t make sense to have it, and then telling people they need it. You don’t need a smart toilet when a simple button does the trick.