> Yikes that really hits home. Since the dawn of computers, people have been handing over more and more of their thinking to processes and machines, becoming mo

> Yikes that really hits home. Since the dawn of computers, people have been handing over more and more of their thinking to processes and machines, becoming more robotic. One of the major motifs of Chaplin's Modern Times. It was released in 1936. It's also, um, kinda something Karl Marx was concerned about. So. Here's a famous sequence from the film, in which Chaplin's character is volun-told to try out a new efficiency-improving worker lunch machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwahG1s4dqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwahG1s4dqI