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The "horrendously massive number of these types of workers" is the result of a violent imposition of a Capitalist ideology that masquerades as some inevitable, invisible, and inviolable logic. Robots and AI deployed by an oligarch class are just the newest incarnation of a truncheon waved in the face of the engineers who enable them. Better the poor be beaten with it than you.

I say we change the trajectory of the future instead of embracing a nightmare of our own invention as an inevitability.



This "nightmare" isn't an invention, it's the natural state.

Progress is bringing us closer meeting needs for everyone, instead dying in a cave when the snow got too high to hunter-gather.


Oh so this fatuous teleology extends back throughout all human time and history, now? All of history culminates in Filipinos being exploited by cruise lines because cave men? That's quite an interesting take on Hegel.




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