Comment by aspenmayer
20 days ago
IBM also built a calculator for the IRS in the late 1800s. They have been working with the government before nearly anyone still alive.
Edit: it was for the 1890 US census, not the IRS. I apologize for my prior error.
Friend, are you really conflating a calculator with a system of records knowingly used to enact the Holocaust? I recognize your point, but the valley between the two things is so large that I'm going to assume you're trolling.
Not at all. I’m saying that IBM has been getting government contracts for a while, and they worked with Nazis in Germany to tabulate undesirables.
Okay, but what's your point? The OP question was about what shifted.
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