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Ask horses if machines can displace jobs for whole categories of workers. Or ask neanderthals if it’s possible to have one’s role replaced by a higher iq substi
by paulsutter 4y ago
Ask horses if machines can displace jobs for whole categories of workers. Or ask neanderthals if it’s possible to have one’s role replaced by a higher iq substitute
- astrange 4y agoHorses aren’t workers, they’re horses. They didn’t ask to participate in the economy in the first place.
- _dain_ 4y agoNobody asked me whether I wanted to participate in the economy either, yet here I am.
- trention 4y agoThe affirmative answer to that ask was implicit in the first employment contract you signed. So, unless you'd claim that horses can give implicit consent by accepting grain from a human, the equivalency fails.