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[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (26 children)

At some point in the last decade, the ~~ostensive~~ ostensible goal of automation evolved from savings us from unwanted labor to keeping us from ever doing anything.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

It says something important about this "revolution" that it's starting with replacement/replication of art, not labor or manual drudgery work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Except in fact we have just seen 2 centuries of drudgery automated. Have you seen a combine harvester?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So many machines, yet I'm working more hours than my ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And your ancestors also subsistence farmed and didn't have all the technology you do.

Look I'm as big a critics of our modern capital-industrial system as the next person but it's crazy to not see how technology has made people more productive and given us more wealth.

Also the idea that peasants had lore days off is sorts debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kks6tq/comment/gh4oh5c

It is however quite true that people during the industrial revolution itself were working way more hours than previously which is why the whole labor movement kicked off. We appreciate the gains of previous ancestors fighting for our labor rights.

Could things be better? Certainly. Is automation being maliciously targeted towards art and creativity at the expense of not increasing productivity and reducing drudgery? No.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it’s crazy to not see how technology has made people more productive and given us more wealth.

it's a crying shame that the lion's share of all that wealth is parked at the pockets of the 0.1%

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

“ I'm as big a critics of our modern capital-industrial system as the next person”

Evidently

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