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If someone asked what is 'the largest theft of labor in human history' I would have thought slavery.
by sajithdilshan 16d ago
If someone asked what is 'the largest theft of labor in human history' I would have thought slavery.
- mitxela 16d agoNever ended, just changed in form.
- not_a_bot_4sho 16d agoYou're right that it never ended. But it didn't change form much. Still around 50 million people enslaved nowadays.
- midtake 16d agoAre you comparing modern workplace aches and gripes to literal 1800s slavery?
- someguynamedq 15d agoNo need to balk. Different forms of coerced labor can all be bad even if some are worse than others.
- cindyllm 15d ago[dead]
- y-curious 16d agoYeah gulags and other forced work camps also come to mind. But I guess this is a larger scale in terms of man hours
- bcjdjsndon 16d agoBut it's copying...how is it theft? Your labour WASNT stolen was it?
- Avicebron 16d agoIn a way their future labor was? If i recorded you 24/7, then went to your employer and told them I had masterfully trained a chimpanzee to perform your jpb, and it was good enough your employer considered getting rid of you. Would you consider me recording/copying whart you did theft in some way?
- cluckindan 16d agoEven better question: would you be willing to train the AI-driven robot which will end your profession altogether?
- px43 16d agoI work in infosec and I would give up everything I own and die happy if infosec became a solved problem and the profession died forever. It's hard for me to imagine a profession that should exist in a utopian society. People should just be able to explore and build cool shit. People should have instant access to food when they're hungry and housing when the weather gets bad, and we could live in a society that does all that without having rent extraction baked into everything.
- tremon 16d agoI'm not sure how to square > It's hard for me to imagine a profession that should exist in a utopian society with > People should have instant access to food when they're hungry and housing when the weather gets bad You don't think that farming, baking, and building are professions?
- NekkoDroid 16d agoI assume they mean that it is all already automated in the utopian society. And I would kinda agree that that would be utopian. But sadly we live in the real world where greed rules pretty much everything, meaning that it will remain an unobtainable dream for (most likely) ever.
- bcjdjsndon 16d agoNo actually it's when someone copies that blog post you did about react.js and puts it into a dataset, I'm not sure how they sleep with themselves the absolute monsters
- TacticalCoder 16d ago> If someone asked what is 'the largest theft of labor in human history' I would have thought slavery. Then I take it you're interested in factual information as to whom the biggest slavers were, which country was the last to abolish slavery (an african one, in the 1980s) and in which countries, today, there are still people selling slaves.
- xxs 16d agoSlavery is a weird one. It has been there for longer than any written history exists. In ancient times (Greece, Rome), slaves didn't have rights at all. A horrific injustice but it'd be not be a theft. Then you get the serfdom in the middle ages. Up to recent times humans have been brutally exploited. The copy part was a recognized right, then taken away.