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You can absolutely capture the value of your additional productivity. Strike out on your own. Start your own company or consulting firm. That has always been

• rileymat2 5mo ago
  Of course, but not as an employee
• viccis 5mo ago
  "Ah you textile workers are so whiny. If you're mad at your jobs being obsoleted by massive machine factories, why not just buy a few dozen such factories? Strike out on your own." Yeah man I don't know if mommy and daddy are paying your rent and healthcare (as I often see from people with this attitude). Or maybe you're one of the 45 year old tech workers whose mid life crisis involves a music project no one will listen to and going to work on some startups with your FIRE nest egg until you come crawling back to a big tech company. But for now I, like most millennial Americans, am reliant on wage labor to afford a dignified life in a tolerable town.
  • stevenlangbroek 5mo ago
    > Ah you textile workers are so whiny... hell yeah baby, I'm a proud Luddite.
  • Waterluvian 5mo ago
    True. I wasn’t born American so there is that. I have some of the lesser promoted freedoms like getting to think critically about if this is what I really want to be doing in life.
  • tobr 5mo ago
    > maybe you're one of the 45 year old > But for I, like most millennial Americans Someone who turns 45 in 2026 is a millennial though.