VonGuard's Journal: Automated Billing?

OK, we have a whole new world, right? A glorious interconnected society with millions of computers and networks all conected and communicating and calculating simultaneously. They should have no trouble tracking each and every one of us down the most minute detail, and we're, in fact, very worried about this prospect.

Right?

Then how come my Verizon bill comes in with a $500 overcharge? Why can't Ticket Master track what seats it has open? Why do long distance companies consistently call me and offer new services that I've told them repeatedly I don't want? Why are there billing mistakes from my bank that they immediately correct when I call and ask about them? Why do I have to mail in a rebate certificate to get my "instant cash back?"

In truth, it seems that most of the amazingly modern technology we have at our fingertips today is there only to make life more annoying and to give corporations the ability to automatically screw us every month. Truly an evolution from the old manual screwing we used to receive.

Corporations should not exist for the sole purpose of making money. They need to have a responsibility to their customers, their employees, and society at large. If they don't, then they are just a big group of people doing evil.

Well, I suppose that's what they are now. Evolve people!