You must have also thought that no one would buy an electric car or that bitcoin would never catch on. Self checkout lanes don’t work because they don’t simplify anything...you still have to do all the same work a cashier would do, only a cashier is faster because...that’s their job.

Unfortunately they did just that. The brilliant engineer that installed the mesh safety net held it up with metal rods, like tent poles...and now we know how that turned out...