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> we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian If "we as a society" don't understand the supposed purpose of something that

> we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian If "we as a society" don't understand the supposed purpose of something that we as a society are enacting, then that supposed purpose is academic and ultimately meaningless. There is no universal agency or purpose behind automation other than that of those who are building it, who to date have largely been capitalists and not utopians.

wu-ikkyu 9y ago
In the short term the so called "capitalists" may have received marginal profits by the selfish and stifling use of automation, just as a luddite may temporarily maintain their status quo by stifling automation. But in the long term, anything but humanitarian ends of automation will be self-defeating; that is the misunderstanding. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfXln4NCQAAN5z2.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfXln4NCQAAN5z2.jpg