>but at the same time technology should get a lot of credit for civilization improvements such as near extinction of slavery in the West once machinery became c

>but at the same time technology should get a lot of credit for civilization improvements such as near extinction of slavery in the West once machinery became cheaper/more productive than manual labor. When people on this site talk about "tech", they don't mean something on labor saving machinery for humanity as most of the low hanging fruit there has been picked decades ago, but more on the spectrum of which new VC funded app can make the most lucrative exit, using the $CURRENT_DAY hype like blockchain or AI. Sure, new and more advanced machinery is coming out, like ASML's stuff, but those ASSML steppers aren't saving people from hard labor, starvation or poverty, like the mining or agricultural machines for a century ago.