It's good to be empathetic towards anyone suffering, but you must also consider how much suffering is avoided when technology advances. Yes, washing machines c

It's good to be empathetic towards anyone suffering, but you must also consider how much suffering is avoided when technology advances. Yes, washing machines caused suffering for women who made a living manually washing clothes. But they alleviated far, far more suffering by automating a physically difficult task. My guess is that widespread adoption of new technology almost always reduces net suffering in the long term. Prioritizing the reduction of suffering today at the cost of more suffering in the future seems short-sighted.