she proclaimed that improvements in software automation should be viewed as the “next industrial revolution.”
The thing that effectively enslaved every human in someone else’s money making machine and kickstarted the billionaire class. I wonder why kids don’t want that to happen again.
Would you say that it and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity?
Tough to say. I have access to more technology and resources than my entire family tree before me.
I can buy a bunch of Aliexpress electronics, print a body, write some code, and have a completely custom automated machine to do any task I can think of.
But I am also in more debt than my entire family tree just to live in a townhouse next to a high school and freight railway.
Ah, but if those things had never been invented then you wouldn’t be missing them!
That’s why I’ve always considered it a fallacy when people point out the modern standards of living to say the past wasn’t better. Comfort and convenience aren’t major indicators of quality of life in my opinion.
Leisure time, stress levels, and social integration are more important. And most of those things were drastically better prior to the industrial revolution.
You’re not talking to shareholders. You’re talking to the next generation. Why would they be happy about being replaced…
Lady looked like a bene geserit witch as I scrolled by.
Oof, the use of italics throughout was very boomery and tough to read.
