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>The luddites had a point. Didn't the machines ended up creating more jobs than there were before even taking into account the lost ones? They had a point, unt

• acover 4y ago
  > Many Luddites were owners of workshops that had closed because factories could sell similar products for less. But when workshop owners set out to find a job at a factory, it was very hard to find one because producing things in factories required fewer workers than producing those same things in a workshop. This left many people unemployed and angry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite It wasn't a smooth transition. What happened to horses after most of their tasks were done better by internal combustion engines? It's weird to imagine a world where humans have so few niches, but I thought we were decades away from passing the Turing test.
• lm28469 4y ago
  > They had a point, until it turned out they were wrong. Meanwhile people are pushed into shittier and shittier jobs with ever decreasing meaning > Didn't Uber and similar applications end up becoming competition for the taxis? In my country taxi drivers were protesting for those apps to be banned And now uber drivers are seen as contractors, which means they miss most workers benefits, while being paid like shit thanks to the race to the bottom, the only winner is uber