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This is silly. The world isn't balanced like that. Many improvements have no disadvantage. More efficient photovoltaic cells, not needing hfcfs in pressurized s
by Misdicorl 6y ago
This is silly. The world isn't balanced like that. Many improvements have no disadvantage. More efficient photovoltaic cells, not needing hfcfs in pressurized spray cans, discovering that you can add a bit of carbon to iron, ...
- oldsklgdfth 6y agoIf that is your position I would refer you to the myth of thamus[0] and the writings of Neil Postman. [0]https://bearskindigital.com/2015/01/20/the-myth-of-thamus-and-theuth/ https://bearskindigital.com/2015/01/20/the-myth-of-thamus-an...
- theelous3 6y agoThat was pretty unconvincing. Some people think writing makes your memory lazy? Well even more think it can serve as a tool in learning and as a tool for memorisation. Now what?
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Many improvements have no disadvantage Every improvement has, at the very least, its Luddite cost. It forces some people to change, and some of those people won’t like that.
- dantheman 6y agoWhat was the disadvantage introduced by having doctors wash their hands or the invention of antibiotics?
- oldsklgdfth 6y agoI can only speculate. I would say an overall weakened immune system. Is your point that there are technologies with only benefits?
- Ygg2 6y agoWashing hands for doctors? Probably not much. Invention of antibiotics, its use and abuse increased bacterial resistance to them.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> What was the disadvantage introduced by having doctors wash their hands or the invention of antibiotics? Not disadvantage, trade-off cost. Someone, no doubt, lost business selling quack cures.
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- olalonde 6y agoYou could argue that automation is one of those improvements with no disadvantage. But it can also result in people losing their jobs and those people might be opposed to it. I would argue that the same is true with the gig economy. It benefits the people participating in it greatly but it also cost some people their jobs (e.g. taxi drivers).
- rorykoehler 6y agoLosing a job isn’t inherently bad. I’d only bad now because we’ve decided to arrange society around zero sum thinking.
- doctor_eval 6y agoIt’s pretty inherently bad if losing your job means you can’t feed your kids or yourself.
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- rorykoehler 6y agoExactly. It’s absurd the consequences of losing your job are so fundamental. It’s time civilisation moved forward from this.
- doctor_eval 6y agoI think we probably agree 100% about this, but the reality today is what’s important to people losing their job today. I don’t think you mean to downplay the impact of someone losing their job today, but that’s how it came across to me.
- rorykoehler 6y agoIf there was ever a time we had a direct opportunity to change this dynamic it's today.
- rorykoehler 6y agoOf course they have disadvantageS to something or someone. Some are just more abstract, removed or minor.