What I Wish I Could Tell Every Grandmother In America Right Now
How a Black Friday TV Taught Me Everything You Need to Know About the Coming Robot Takeover of America
A few months back on Black Friday I found a deal on Amazon that was too good to pass up. A 32 inch 1080p high definition flat screen TV for less than seventy dollars. Ten years ago this same TV would have cost two thousand. Perfect size for my middle aged eyes to read tiny text. Perfect for watching movies when my brain is too fried to write another article about how our government is being hijacked by techno-fascist billionaires. I clicked buy and felt pretty good about myself for being a savvy shopper.
A few weeks later I understood why that TV was so cheap.
Half a dozen charges for Amazon Prime channels I never ordered appeared on my credit card statement. Channels I did not subscribe to. Channels I did not click on. Channels that somehow activated themselves after Amazon pushed a forced remote update to my television…
