• @[email protected]
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    -32 months ago

    Sure but sometimes individuals do lose their jobs so it would have been ethical to stop technological progress back in the 1800’s

    • @ABCDE
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      32 months ago

      It would not have been ethical with increasing populations and no means to scale up effectively to meet their needs. Individuals, sure, but not overall; technology has replaced people in specific situations, people who then went on to get employment in other areas.

      • knightly the Sneptaur
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        So those workers who were made redundant got severance pay and training for the new jobs they were assigned to, right?

        No? They got thrown out on their asses with no means to provide for themselves and their families?

        Geeze, sounds like the Luddites were right.

        • @ABCDE
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          02 months ago

          Looking at the bigger picture… layoffs happen all the time for many reasons. Overall, technology has not increased unemployment.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            22 months ago

            layoffs happen all the time for many reasons

            Layoffs are the result of primitive capital being monopolized through enclosure and the local labor force being corralled into industries that generate more goods than the deflated economy can absorb.

            There’s no layoffs for yeomen farmers and independent craftsman. You only experience the phenomenon when land barons control the property and dictate how many people they wish to employ.