One of the most frustrating things is when something you want to be below the API pops itself above the API.

· Bits and Bobs 4/6/26
  • One of the most frustrating things is when something you want to be below the API pops itself above the API.
    • For example, when the internet goes out.
    • When it was below the API you didn't have to think about it, but when it's above the API it forces you to think of it.
      • How dare it!
    • In Victorian England, this is how an upper class person might feel about a lower class person.
      • "How dare the butler presume I care about them as a human?"
      • When you put humans below the API, you objectify them.
        • You make them means, not ends.
      • "How dare my InstaCart driver not pick the eggs I wanted?"
      • Humans are inherently ends.[d]