> society that started adopting the telephone, or automobiles
Personal telephony and mechanized personal transportation have been empowering assets, extras, while transactions in the market are basics - you live and could live without cars and phones, while living without money is a completely different enterprise.
> railing against a new technology because it [has] disadvantages
That is not what the article is doing. And the real disadvantages are beyond «the discrimination of the poor and the elderly».
> People have to deal
A circular assumption in which "history justifies history" and explicitly poses nothing.
Personal telephony and mechanized personal transportation have been empowering assets, extras, while transactions in the market are basics - you live and could live without cars and phones, while living without money is a completely different enterprise.
> railing against a new technology because it [has] disadvantages
That is not what the article is doing. And the real disadvantages are beyond «the discrimination of the poor and the elderly».
> People have to deal
A circular assumption in which "history justifies history" and explicitly poses nothing.