• ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to fight the machines for the right to keep slaving away myself

    And when I’m done, capitalism will give me an off day as a treat!

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      1 year ago

      You’re missing the point. If you don’t have a job to “slave away” at, you don’t have the money to afford food and shelter. Any changes to that situation, if they ever come, are going to lag far behind whatever events cause a mass explosion of unemployment.

      It’s not about licking a boot, it’s that we don’t want to let the boot just use something that should be a net good as extra weight as they step on us.

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        1 year ago

        I am not going to purposefully waste human life on tasks that machines could perform or help us be faster at just because late capitalism doesn’t let me, the worker, reap the value from them.

        It removes human labor

        On a bigger scale we had the loom, the printing press, the steam engine the computer. Imagine if we’d refused them

        I can’t see us get ensnared into some neu dark age propelled by some “i need to keep my job” status quo just because we found ourselves with a moronic economic system that makes innovations bad news for the workers it replaces

        If it takes AI taking away our livelihoods to get a chance to rework this failing doctrine so be it

        I’m not talking communism I’m barely hoping for an organic response to it, likely a UBI