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We were told the machines would free us from repetitive or injurious work, letting us pursue more meaningful and prosperous lives. Or at least they would be our

We were told the machines would free us from repetitive or injurious work, letting us pursue more meaningful and prosperous lives. Or at least they would be our partners we could leverage. Instead, will they be the tools of our enslavement to The Man?

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HenryBemis 2y ago
When was the last time in history that people didn't use the most advanced technology to subdue/imprison/etc. other people? I am not saying that good things didn't happen, but where there is money to be made, money WILL be made. And for some countries that don't enjoy regulations like GDPR (China, India, with growing economies 'solutions' like this will definitely come to play). Some people will replace a form of slavery with a newer form of slavery.
- ashoeafoot 2y ago
  Intelligence implies belligerence
- noah_buddy 2y ago
  Quite literally never. Society and civilization, from the earliest days, has been a story of subjugation of a lower class by a higher class. Technology and force have enabled this. How else could you compel a farmworking class to provide for other segments of the society?
- suraci 2y ago
  I'm sure China and India will like GDPR if they can use paper money to purchase industrial products and natural resources from the EU and North America
  - HenryBemis 2y ago
    China and GDPR is not a thing. China is building a social credit scoring system which is the very thing that GDPR wants to stop from ever being built (see Facebook, Stasi, Securitat in Romania, etc). India.. don't get me started. There is no law in that land. Hasn't been one. Will not be one for the next thousand years. Let's not be graphic, let's just say that "caste system", "women's right" and leave it at that. GDPR requires rule of just (as from Justice) law. Caste system and rule of law are conflicting terms.
krapp 2y ago
Many people, like the Luddites, saw through the con ages ago. But people will still parrot the lie that technology and automation (AI in the modern context) will free the working class to live lives of intellectual pursuit and leisure to this day, when the goal of both is the opposite.
- PTGreat 2y ago
  > Luddites A group who, contrary to popular belief, were not 'anti-technology'. The fact they campaigned for unemployment support and re-training for workers displaced by the new technologies probably makes the Luddites amongst the most forward thinking and progressive people of the industrial revolution!

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HenryBemis 2y ago

When was the last time in history that people didn't use the most advanced technology to subdue/imprison/etc. other people? I am not saying that good things didn't happen, but where there is money to be made, money WILL be made. And for some countries that don't enjoy regulations like GDPR (China, India, with growing economies 'solutions' like this will definitely come to play). Some people will replace a form of slavery with a newer form of slavery.

ashoeafoot 2y ago
Intelligence implies belligerence
noah_buddy 2y ago
Quite literally never. Society and civilization, from the earliest days, has been a story of subjugation of a lower class by a higher class. Technology and force have enabled this. How else could you compel a farmworking class to provide for other segments of the society?
suraci 2y ago
I'm sure China and India will like GDPR if they can use paper money to purchase industrial products and natural resources from the EU and North America
- HenryBemis 2y ago
  China and GDPR is not a thing. China is building a social credit scoring system which is the very thing that GDPR wants to stop from ever being built (see Facebook, Stasi, Securitat in Romania, etc). India.. don't get me started. There is no law in that land. Hasn't been one. Will not be one for the next thousand years. Let's not be graphic, let's just say that "caste system", "women's right" and leave it at that. GDPR requires rule of just (as from Justice) law. Caste system and rule of law are conflicting terms.

krapp 2y ago

Many people, like the Luddites, saw through the con ages ago. But people will still parrot the lie that technology and automation (AI in the modern context) will free the working class to live lives of intellectual pursuit and leisure to this day, when the goal of both is the opposite.

PTGreat 2y ago
> Luddites A group who, contrary to popular belief, were not 'anti-technology'. The fact they campaigned for unemployment support and re-training for workers displaced by the new technologies probably makes the Luddites amongst the most forward thinking and progressive people of the industrial revolution!