• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t get it. Were these people also sabotaging factories? Were they tearing down computers? Were they ripping up plumbing and electricity?

    • mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca
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      15 minutes ago

      Those inventions directly and immediately created new kinds of jobs and that was clear to everyone. Plumbing made plumbers, electricity made electricians, computers made programmers. Robots take jobs and add very few new jobs. Which people dislike, because for millenia the social contract has been that everybody has to “earn” their survival. That contract, while always disingenuous due to existence of various kinds of aristocracies and elites, has been more or less in balance due to the need for labor. This is what’s breaking now. And the two possible outcomes are either only the elites survive, or none of the elites survive.