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Comment by JamesAdir | Hacker News Reader

When we accepted journalism to be a collection of twits? No data, no real figures, no information from the companies. Just a collection of links and tweets wrapped in the author opinion which is based on anecdotes. I'm much worried from the state of journalism than the car rental business.

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I agree with you, but given that overall comments in here seem to agree with the article, I guess this is a two-way problem.

How much have you paid for this journalism you want?

Who pays for things that don't exist?

I’m a paid subscriber of The Atlantic, and I’m the one who submitted the link.

Magazines have always carried this kind of garbage.

Driving away in an almost new car with a few basic checks of what condition the car is in, verifying you have a valid licence and means of paying is something I would expect to be less than 100% streamlined towards my own convenience.

I have rented from Enterprise several times and can't really complain. Not much of a story there, I guess?

Seems relatively simple to streamline to me. Charge an authorization hold to the card for the total cost, scan + verify their ID (doctor's offices and airports already do this in under 30 seconds), do a quick docusign-esque thing on the computer (for those of you that want to read the contract, you could read yours off to the side while others go, when you're done you'll be helped next). Then just send the customer off to the lot to get keys + vehicle condition check.

Your experience must be far worst than mine because what you just decribed isn't that much different from what actually happens.

I should admit that I have only rented locally though from a fairly small office where the manager knew me by first name after 2 or 3 hires. The process became dramtically more efficient after this.

The absurdity of indicating blogging is journalism will no longer be tolerated

The Atlantic has some really good articles and times and then there are articles like these that are just puffery and misdirection claiming that we're all in late stage capitalism circling down the toilet of western civilization.

"Late stage capitalism" is a meme beloved by early stage interns.

They're dying for capitalism to end so they can fulfill their rightful role in society as anime appreciaters who are paid $150K a year.

You really let that strawman know who's boss...

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