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I certainly understand the sentiment, but can you think of historical examples where technology, which oftentimes in history has undermined income opportunities
by harmmonica 2y ago
I certainly understand the sentiment, but can you think of historical examples where technology, which oftentimes in history has undermined income opportunities for people, has not been adopted for that reason? I guess I'm really asking whether there has ever been a successful effort to stop the adoption of tech that undermines human labor/income opportunity.
We're certainly in the thick of it right now. Recent high profile ones: LLMs, port automation, other types of AI for media production, I'm sure the list goes on and on.
The reason I'm asking is not to advocate for technology, but rather to understand if there have been successful efforts in the past to stifle tech. If there haven't been noteworthy ones, then my gut says we ought to be focused on how to get those people to not be left behind (so so incredibly difficult) rather than preserving something solely for the sake of people making money off of it. Like I said, so easy to say, but incredibly difficult to achieve in practice. Not sure there are great examples of people not being left behind.