It's almost as if an industrialized society needs to be socialized to an extent so the hoi polloi also sees the return on these labor reducing machines
Like if we the people create some sort of organization where we are all represented, and these labor reducing machines were owned by such an organization to work for everyone, that would give everyone the benefit of less required work.
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i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 108 pts · 336d
Wanting the fruits of their own labor? Damn you, greedy laborers!
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 85 pts · 336d
Yeah man, think of all the greedy workers stealing the value of their labor from the poor capitalists!
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 336d
I don't think the commenter is saying that as their own opinion, but as the real reason capitalists are developing automation.
BadJojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 47 pts · 336d
I read that as sarcasm.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 38 pts · 336d
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 336d
It's HN, they're dead serious.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 336d
how do you know? it reads to me as if "greed" was in quotes
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 336d
It's HN.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 335d
but you also have the anti-capitalist comment from merth
4am@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 336d
And this is how STEMlords got so fucking bluepilled
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 336d
Wat
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 336d
Yeah, that last word gave me a huge mental whiplash. He was doing ok up till then.
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 336d
Pretty sure that's intended to be read as the perspective of the owner class, not the commenter's own perspective.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 336d
Maybe. But I read enough of HN to know there are a whole lot of temporarily embarrassed soon-to-be unicorn founders over there.
4am@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 336d
Yeah a lot of commenters here reading HN screenshots like as if it was Lemmy, or Reddit from 12 years ago, or Slashdot in 1999.
No, the HN posters are mostly insane, hungry wannabe ancap wolves.
abbotsbury@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 336d
It's almost as if an industrialized society needs to be socialized to an extent so the hoi polloi also sees the return on these labor reducing machines
Like if we the people create some sort of organization where we are all represented, and these labor reducing machines were owned by such an organization to work for everyone, that would give everyone the benefit of less required work.
anzo@programming.dev · 7 pts · 334d
Glad to know I am not the only anticapitalist and sadomasochist reading HN.
Btw, there's a lot of editorial work on the "Best" front page. I have switched over to visiting from https://news.social-protocols.org/upvoterate
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 334d
Ah yes those goddamn greedy workers.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 336d
Automation seems to be more of a thing pushed by corporations to reduce their reliance on workers.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 334d
All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 335d
If youre not doing neomalthusian scarcity fetishism, why even bother waking up?