Memes

It's weird to me that y'all don't appreciate the convenience of advancing technology.

You’re operating from the incorrect assumption that an automatic is more convenient while it isn’t.

Try this: stand up, walk to the other side of the room and back. Was that inconvenient? Did you have to consciously place your legs and think about how to use your feet? No. You just want to go in a certain direction and your legs just move without you needing to think about it.

Driving a manual is the same. You don’t consciously operate the gearbox, you just drive. Shifting gears doesn’t require conscious thought. An automatic isn’t convenient, quite the opposite, as it gives you less control.

Why don’t you use a wheelchair? Surely rolling around is more convenient than balancing on two legs? It’s because balancing on two legs isn’t actually that inconvenient once you learned how. It was when you were a baby, but we help babies learn to walk instead of putting them in a wheelchair. Same goes for driving a manual. Once you learn to a point where you no longer need to think about it, it’s more convenient than an automatic.

It's like going "only mentally disabled folks use microwaves, the rest of us light the wood stove and let it simmer for a half hour"

Good analogy. Now go microwave a steak while I cook one over a wood fire, which steak do you think will turn out the most delicious?