All technology is amoral, and will continue to be amoral. If you don't believe so, you should just join the Amish or the Luddites, because that was their take o

All technology is amoral, and will continue to be amoral. If you don't believe so, you should just join the Amish or the Luddites, because that was their take on the world. The things you discuss were possible to do before technology, technology just made it easier to do. Ethics is therefore still important (and perhaps the enforcement of them via laws). Nuclear technology makes cheap energy. It also makes gigantic bombs. The libertarian in me says that workers who do not like their split-shift conditions should just quit them. En masse, this would force those employers to raise wages in order to attract people willing to put up with that kind of crap, equalizing things again. Of course, this would require extending unemployment benefits to people who quit jobs. (There is no logical reason why this isn't already the case. I can simply stop showing up for work and make it so that I get unemployment benefits, but that is far more wasteful and is basically a trade of self-esteem for security.) The thing is, if you ignore labor-saving techniques and keep labor for its own sake, that's quite a nihilistic existence if you think about it. I could take that to an extreme and demand that I get paid to manually move the bits around which generate the computing screen I'm looking at. It might take me over a year just to post this message, but hey, at least I'm getting paid and not forced to look for work that is better suited to me, right? If you want to see a real-world example of money burned simply to keep jobs alive, look no further than this article about how the US Military spent its money last year https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ec86786aae30 https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ec86786aae30 . Read the story about the M1 Abrams tank. Then see how you feel.