The machine doesn't grumble at me because it's having a bad day. The machine doesn't keep me waiting because it wants to have a chat with its colleague. The machine doesn't miscalculate, doesn't do the process differently every time, doesn't forget any options and really communicates everything I tell it to the kitchen.

Sorry, I know that as humans we like to tell ourselves that we are special and that "human contact" is a quality in itself. In reality, however, it tends to disappoint. I prefer a machine to a human every day.

I don't need fake kindness from underpaid people who would rather be somewhere else. I want my freedom from these people just as much as I want freedom for them. Let them do something that fulfills them and leave the rest to the machines.