100% agree people are as moral as technology makes it easy to be People have slavery without qualms for tens of thousands of years and then "somehow" had a moral epiphany ... right around the time steam engines became useful. Curious coincidence !https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1198966424032743425 …
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4/ this is close to correct, but I disagree feminism didn't arise "bc the market needed more labor" (markets don't need X amount; there are supply and demand curves) feminism arose bc we tech made us rich enough that we didn't NEED women at homehttps://twitter.com/cryptojeezus/status/1199080484971667457 …
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5/ also "increased competition", if anything, shifts production to the most efficient producer. C.f. Ricardo's Law of Comparative advantage ; trade makes us richer and thus LOWERS demand for labor required to produce at the same level
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6/ I largely agree with thishttps://twitter.com/Saradin1337/status/1199081541936267265 …
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7/ my theory is that technology drives social change, which explains why slavery ended after steam engines and feminism started after the Pill. Your theory is ... people did it because they wanted to control people. Which ... applied in 100 BC, yes?https://twitter.com/brabakr/status/1199082025057021952 …
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8/ Efficient for whom? Slavery is efficient for slaveholders ; if it wasn't, they wouldn't do it. Also, it's not "confusing" morality and economics, it's making a point re connection between professed morals and economics. I thought that was obvious.https://twitter.com/onefiftyfivemm/status/1199109461140328449?s=19 …
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And it's not even a case of "technology finally makes it possible to go without" - even a bronze age economy is more efficient without it. People just start doing it if they can. Kind of like poor sanitation in that way - easy to revert to bad social equilibria.
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You make a lot of good points, but I gotta suggest that slavery never disappeared. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century …
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Concur. But it certainly scaled back a lot, and is more common in poor areas than rich.
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As you and I have oft argued out, my take subtracts a few words: Technology changes human nature (and vice versa). The human drive to push other people around takes very different forms as the median of the population moves up the Maslow scale.
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I think that human NATURE doesn't change, but the EXPRESSION of that nature changes. We agree, I think, on two human drives: laziness (labor saving machines / slaves scratch the itch) and power lust ( small tribes warring vs electoral politics). yes ? or do we disagree ?
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