▲ | SillyUsername a day ago | |||||||
IMHO YES! Just like the industrial revolution impacted barrel makers (coopers). Except we aren't yet reaping the full rewards or skills realignment yet, so we've still to have the car making impact (which was post revolution, but replaced manual labour with machines as their ability grew and relative cost shrunk). We even have our own Luddites :D | ||||||||
▲ | giraffe_lady a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
I guess I get to be the one who brings this up this time. The luddites were not strictly against the technological changes, they were a labor movement protesting how capital owners were using a new technology to dispossess workers who had no viable alternatives. As this is also one of the major risks of AI, one that has already come to bear directly, there's a lot we can take from their movement when we don't dismiss it as shorthand for "being wrong about technology." | ||||||||
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