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Karl Marx predicted this. See: Estranged Labor (1844) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/
by nopenopenopeno 4y ago
Karl Marx predicted this. See: Estranged Labor (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts...
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoKarl Marx did not predict this. He predicted estrangement from labor - from being emotionally dissociated from the results of your work. He didn't predict being estranged from (or worse, because of) your non-work interactions with others through media.
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoHe absolutely predicted that. According to Marx, in capitalism, relations between people become predominated by their relations to capital. It is not a separate phenomenon.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoReally? HN didn't become Facebook, even though HN is tied to the capitalist class just as much as Facebook is. I have exactly the same relation to capital when I use HN as when I use Facebook (or would, if I used Facebook), and yet the alienation is much higher with Facebook. Marx didn't predict this. McLuhan did. HN is a different medium from Facebook (and deliberately so).