Comment by fullshark
9 days ago
They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.
was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?
I'm confused - you're suggesting that past suffering justifies present suffering?
My first day of orientation at the CS dept was at the height of the dot com crash. I think I got told by 20+ seniors that day to drop out before paying a single bill. That it was all pointless and the internet was an over valued bubble and no one was getting hired. Mood on campus was scary for almost two years post the crash. If we had social media back then I can only imagine how much more fears would have been amplified.
He's pointing out that labor has always opposed labor saving technology, despite that being the basis of our modern quality of life.
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I mean the Luddites were mad for a reason, and many may forget the industrial revolution was a rather bloody affair.
Avoiding a repeat of that would be great while also increasing productivity would be good.
The Luddites were mad not because the machines put them out of work but because the machines were supremely shitty. The machines were dangerous and they made lousy products that reflected a lack of pride in workmanship.
The Luddites were all for saving labor, but not if enshittified products and slavery to unreliable machines were the price.
Sounds pretty familiar to me.
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No, that's why unions exist.
Unions and worker's rights exist because workers were exploited to the max during the Industrial Revolution.
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