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If we followed this logic every time we got a labour saving innovation, we'd be still living in the stone ages. Using a bow and arrow to kill an antelope from a
by cherryteastain 1y ago
If we followed this logic every time we got a labour saving innovation, we'd be still living in the stone ages. Using a bow and arrow to kill an antelope from afar is more efficient, but nothing gives the artisanal flavour of meat developed by hours of persistence hunting.
- cardanome 1y agoYeah that is why I wrote: > Doesn't mean that progress is inherently bad Progress is inevitable. And while it leads to short term suffering it does also lead to higher standards of living or at least it can. Still, the claim that tech would safe us from the "mundane" tasks and would allow us to focus more and more on creative and fun work is often claimed but never fulfilled. Especially we software devs seem to be complete suckers for that kind of thinking always searching for that silver bullet, the new hot framework, the new language, the new way to deploy servers, the complete rewrite that will make everything better. No, it wont.
- kiba 1y agoProgress isn't inevitable. It's the hard work of million of people exerting effort everyday. Look at space. We had suffered stagnation for a while. Even newspace companies aren't necessarily better, just new entrants. We had widely divergent outcomes for "new" companies that are more than two decades old. At least it only take one to have massive success.