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The middle-class has always had a cavalier attitude about labor-saving innovations that made the lower class unemployable. Now that they are in chopping block,
by elzbardico 4y ago
The middle-class has always had a cavalier attitude about labor-saving innovations that made the lower class unemployable.
Now that they are in chopping block, I predict that we will see an increasing interest on Marxism amongst the laptop class.
- fundad 4y agoWe're the vacuum cleaner class. We can't afford a maid but can afford the nicest vacuum cleaner in the store.
- tinglymintyfrsh 4y agoThe iRobot vacuum cleaner class. ;@)
- fundad 4y agoThe Amazon SpiRobot
- stinkytaco 4y agoI started to really notice this during the pandemic, when pieces about tracking software for work-from-home employees started to pop up. Being constantly measured is nothing new to service workers, call centers, delivery drivers or any number of other industries, but it felt like only when it started to impact middle class people who read think pieces did it really get traction as an issue.
- tinglymintyfrsh 4y agoIn America, it won't happen because they'll believe it's their fault as ashamed, aspirational billionaires. Americans are nothing like the French.