That was actually super intentional! Gandalf was afraid to wield the ring through another. He felt he could be corrupted but thought that hobbits seemed to show some resistance. So that’s why he, and later aragorn, cede to his decisions. There is also a fair bit of magic/faith involved that they don’t want to f with.

Yup at the low low cost of checks military budget oh. I love when we subsidize car drivers and oil tycoons with young people’s lives, foreign state sovereignty, and the habitability of the only planet we currently occupy.

You’re on the internet right now. Electricity is super dangerous and we already had a safe and well regulated postal system to communicate before that. If you’re arguing that we should never innovate I think we just disagree there . The same argument could be used against a lot of things. Do I like self driving cars? Idk not particularly, I like trains and bikes. But the idea of freeing up people’s time so they can focus on worthwhile endeavors appeals to me, and it bothers me that in our society the goal isn’t to work less, but rather to work more for less. That’s the point I was trying to make, that whenever we complain about ‘lost jobs’ we should take a moment to consider how absurd it is that that’s a problem

I agree with those things, but I believe the person I was responding to was complaining about putting cab drivers out of work. I just think it’s unfortunate that we can’t simply take care of each other, that people are only valued based on what they produce, and therefore any threat to that production is viewed as negative. We’re more productive than ever and we work more than ever. Our ancestors would be baffled if they could see us

We’ve managed to create a society where people are upset about technology doing the work that people used to do. We’ve just completely lost the plot haven’t we