Not only that, these clowns cannibalized inventory for locals and sold it to tourists, gutting neighborhoods and pricing local families out (the very things that made them attractive to tourists to begin with). Hence why we've seen the long-term rental market explode +45% in London, +60% in Dublin, etc.
This is the same pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered horror story of when people took out interest-only loans in 2007-2008 to buy up properties in places like Las Vegas.
I'm looking forward to a time when locals will be able to better afford their neighborhoods again.
And yet it says nothing of the evils of ad hoc private group chat and the miracle required to remember what secret combination of usernames -- like remembering the nuclear codes -- gets you to an earlier conversation you had to set aside.
It's no more dangerous than spray paint is dangerous. If you're prone to be an abuser, avoiding them is probably not a bad thing. But credit cards in themselves aren't the problem: it's about self-regulation.
Netflix is the DVD bargain bin of the Internet. I would never consider them relevant to the "world it created" because that world only offers fewer than 10-12 of Spike Lee's Top 100 movie canon.