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Is the core of your argument that the industrial revolution and other such changes should have been aborted due to their downstream negative affects? They also
by sampullman 2mo ago
Is the core of your argument that the industrial revolution and other such changes should have been aborted due to their downstream negative affects?
They also lead to great advancements in quality of life, and the capability of sustaining much more human life. We can't predict the long term outcome of new technologies, so the best we can do is blindly forge ahead and try to mitigate the obvious short term problems.
- watwut 2mo agoYes, industrial revolution should have been managed differently and yes the world would be better if it was.
- leansensei 2mo agoEasy to say "should".
- nmz 2mo agoIt was possible, big interests simply didn't want to do it, see luddite history
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