Post #2557757

2026-05-12 04:45 UTC

Anyway, AI fans keep claiming that AI is like the industrial revolution, and yeah, it is. But somehow, for some reason, people broadly view that as a good thing. But it wasn't. It was this. It's the thing I just described, but for physical goods. And now they're coming after art, and science, and correspondence, and law, and medicine, and bookkeeping, and it is incomprehensible to me that anyone at all would be in favor of this

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@wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city 2026-05-12 04:56

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io It is a lot like the industrial revolution: depressing wages, degrading working conditions, and destroying the environment

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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 17:24

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io same. Related: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116583419031115713

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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange 2026-05-30 17:52

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io :1000: :1000: :1000:

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club 2026-05-30 18:34

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io People do not seem to get that for the majority of people living through it, the industrial revolution was a terrible time to be alive - and remained so until a series of revolts, revolutions, and labour movements - most of which ended up in armed conflicts - FORCED the capitalists to treat workers better. Prior to that, most people were better off staying in their agrarian villages, rather than die broke and miserable in a preventable industrial accident.

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