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"The world’s most powerful VC investors are funding an economy where technology allows a ‘ruling class’ to command an ‘underclass’ of servants with the swipe of
by standardUser 5y ago
"The world’s most powerful VC investors are funding an economy where technology allows a ‘ruling class’ to command an ‘underclass’ of servants with the swipe of an app."
This is such absurd hyperbole. Show me an economy where a significant number of people didn't have insecure incomes, lack of benefits or do menial work and maybe we can talk about how to recreate that in the modern world.
Problem is, such an economy has never existed. Instead of faux yearning for a "return" to such a mythical system, let's talk about how to make our system better.
- Barrin92 5y ago>Show me an economy where a significant number of people didn't have insecure incomes Here in Germany and the 'German culture adjacent' countries (Switzerland/Austria/Benelux etc) that culture is still very much intact. When you turn 16 you can pick up a vocational program in the very large and still healthy Mittelstand, and you have a steady career for your entire life, decent pay, without having to have pretty much any universe education. The rat-race mentality and cultural divide into the 'cognitive class' and disenfranchised service work is not universal, it's a consequence of the de-industrialization that the Anglosphere in particular went through.
- petermcneeley 5y ago"Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do because it's too difficult or too hazardous. ...You don't have to think about their welfare, you don't think about how they feel. Whole generations of disposable people." - NG