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Isn't that like saying automated looms should be banned because it meant humans would lose jobs to it? Or buggy whip drivers wanting to ban cars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Might as well ban computers since they automated and eliminated a lot of manual jobs.

The problem of humans with no money should be solved by a societ safety net and things like UBI.




Well, the luddites were right in that they were fighting a good and honorable fight.

Until things are, in fact, solved by whatever idea you might have, why should we just accept each new thing that makes our human lives more intolerable? How could you expect any rational person to have that kind of blind trust in a technology, much less "progress" itself, when every single aspect of our world shows that it is who owns the technology that actually benefits from it? I think it is much more crazy just totally rolling over for each new thing that takes your job than it is to maybe fight for your food and shelter.

I think we can do better than UBI, but either way, fighting against this unfairness is fighting for the things we need to continue with some shred of humanity, insofar as this technology is and will be an agent for the consolidation of labor and profit. Its all the same fight, and the historical luddites understood this consciously or not.

Who knows, maybe the internet would have been better off if some people were brave enough to smash some of Google's servers in like 2006..




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