• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    I don’t really see it doing anything to help good honest hardworking people. It’ll advertise to us, take jobs without compensation, help scammers, and reinforce laws that protect the wealthy. And I know that because that’s what the people trying to sell it are selling it as

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    Those who own the means of production are happy. But they don’t realize id we can’t afford it, we cant buy it, so something will jave to change.

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    Anything that enables corporations and governments to control people harder is bad. We are past the age of technology getting invented for the purpose of improving lives.

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      The world isn’t so black and white. Technology can (and usually does) have the potential to both improve lives, and increase control. For example, computers have inarguably had massive benefits and been a part of nearly every major innovation for decades, but also gave governments and corporations an unprecedented ability to keep, share, and access data about people.

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      We are past the age of technology getting invented for the purpose of improving lives.

      When was that, exactly?

      The actual Luddites were put out of their high-skill guild jobs by the loom.