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At no point in the last 10,000 years of human civilization has there not been a developing technology that threatened to forever reshape and displace a class of
by colechristensen 7mo ago
At no point in the last 10,000 years of human civilization has there not been a developing technology that threatened to forever reshape and displace a class of labor.
Or are you also upset about the modern plight of the telephone operator, farrier, or coal miner?
- mccoyb 7mo agoI see -- and AI is just like all technologies that came before it ... It is not a class of labor ... it is all digital labor. Do you or do you not understand this? It is digital knowledge itself, and then all communication labor, and then all physical labor with robotics. Is this clear to you?
- xvector 7mo agoOh nooo, labor might be automated and we might see advancement that makes the Industrial Revolution look small! Oh, the humanity! Please someone, stop progressing humanity, I need to cling to my sticks!
- NewsaHackO 7mo agoAre SWE's the only digital labor job?
- colechristensen 7mo agoAnd? Hyperbolic fear of change always exists and there's always been more work. Marx' whole idea of Communism was predicted on the fact that he assumed industrialization would lead to a post-scarcity society requiring virtually no work and a overhaul of how everything was owned and produced. Boy was he wrong.