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ALONE ON THE WALL

Making headlines a couple of months ago, Uber introduced an option for passengers in the US to pay a levy to put their driver on mute.

Really, is this where we are now? We are so disdainful of our fellow humans that we’d fit them with a volume knob to save ourselves from the great inconvenience of small talk? I didn’t realise Uberese was so offensive. It wasn’t that long ago that the passengers of the world were collectively delighting in the humanity and personality of ‘ride sharing’, and dissing the bad old days and

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