For example, what dos this even mean:
> Once decoupled from their economic motivations, devices like automatic-flush toilets acclimate their users to apparatuses that don’t serve users well in order that they might serve other actors, among them corporations and the sphere of technology itself. In so doing, they make that uncertainty feel normal.
How can you possibly decouple these from their economic motivations. That is precisely the reason these technologies exist. They may not serve their ends well, but they don't perpetuate themselves. Someone feels they are saving money. (As an aside, automatic towel dispensers have certainly reduced the amount of towel waste in our public bathrooms and I think the automatic faucet is much more hygienic and stops people from leaving it running.)
Or
> Go to Amazon.com and search for an ordinary product like a pair of shoes or a toaster. Amazon wants to show its users as many options as possible, so it displays anything it can fulfill directly or whose fulfillment it can facilitate via one of many catalog partnerships. In some cases, one size or color of a particular shoe might be available direct from Amazon, shipped free or fast or via its Prime two-day delivery service, while another size or color might come from a third party, shipped later or at increased cost. There is no easy way to discern what’s truly in stock.
I can admit to having been confused by Amazon's options before, but frankly the ability to get things I cannot get at my local big box and for less is almost always worth the occasional confusion. The time I spend reading and sorting is time I would otherwise spend waiting in traffic or looking for a parking spot.
Just like the ability to find information quickly without reading through many web pages or going to the library every time I want an answer generally justifies a Google search for me. I haven't internalized these things. I have made a rational comparison and found one to be superior.