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It's just an emotional reaction. I don't hear anyone bemoaning the cotton gin.
by jolt42 1y ago
It's just an emotional reaction. I don't hear anyone bemoaning the cotton gin.
- soiltype 1y agoSarcasm or comically on-the-nose bad example? The cotton gin is the literal textbook example of a technology that ethically backfires and induces magnitudes greater suffering than what it was intended to obviate. It saved and expanded the institution of chattel slavery in the USA.