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Groxxyesterday at 8:53 PM1 replyview on HN

>The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed correctly, is the exact thing you hate.

I don't think it's all that complex tbh. The freeing from labor, both in the past and now, has been achieved largely by firing people, abandoning them to starve while power concentrates in the already-powerful.

This is the exact same thing the Luddites were taking issue with. Because they partly succeeded, we have better labor laws today.


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pocksuppetyesterday at 10:13 PM

We have labor laws today because people kept killing their bosses until the bosses agreed to some sort of compromise. Sadly, such a thing is happening again today, like with the toilet paper warehouse fire.

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