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What a noble move. How much better might the world be had Ford done the same and not endangered the employment of individual manual auto workers with his assem
by kromem 3y ago
What a noble move.
How much better might the world be had Ford done the same and not endangered the employment of individual manual auto workers with his assembly line, or Gutenberg been more mindful of those poor calligraphers who worked tirelessly for centuries in preserving the books he would otherwise have never been able to print.
The idea that progress is perhaps more important to society's overall health than the preservation of the status quo is such a horrid idea and I mourn the many chiselers who lost their jobs to bronze smithing.
Also, maybe with Neuralink we can finally identify exactly what copyrighted works inform human creativity such that we can properly charge licensing and residuals for such usage.
At least then we might see advancing technology used for something good.
- __loam 3y agoI bet you guys think the Luddites deserved to be gunned down too.
- kromem 3y agoGunned down? No. Ignored and shunned? Absolutely.
- __loam 3y agoAnyone who thinks this is absolutely missing the point. The luddites are maligned today because of propaganda bought by big businesses of the time. They weren't just mad about losing their job, they were mad because they were working in horrific conditions in the factories that supposedly represented "progress". They didn't just blindly hate technology.
- kromem 3y agoYou can see in their own letters how it evolved over time into a broader political movement, but started out very much focused on the idea that new technology was going to be taking work away and thus they were opposing the new technology: https://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/bjbecker/spinningweb/week8d.html https://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/bjbecker/spinningweb/week... It's only later on that their focus shifted to where it belonged on the more institutional issues leading to such dire circumstances in the first place.