I'm at the Ned Ludd point where I'm viscerally disgusted by people who share 20-years-younger-me's wide-eyed optimism about "the digital revolution" and all that shit How can you not see that the people most empowered by the "digital revolution" are the worst people in the world
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Replacing human workers is not necessarily a bad thing, unless the system is set up only to value humans doing work. Which is still scarcity-based thinking; except with an effective surplus of labour, you can treat *jobs* as the scarce commodity, and unemployment as a bogeyman.
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"If it wasn't for that excavator, there could be ten men digging that ditch with shovels and pick-axes!" "And if it wasn't for your shovels and pick-axes, there could be two hundred men, women and children digging that ditch with their bare hands!"
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Replacing human workers (when it actually works, which isn't every time it's used) is only a problem because capitalism, though. Reducing the labor needed *should* make things better for everyone, but society is cultishly focused on Everyone Must Have Job
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