Quote (thesnipa @ Nov 6 2020 11:09am)
im curious why this election at all triggers these feelings of doom from automation? whats the connection?
I think there's a distinction between "automation" vs. what I'm talking about, which is the more general idea that machines have been increasingly carrying the load for humanity. My examples of furnaces and guns aren't something we would refer to as automation, but they have fed into the idea that humans shouldn't do the heavy lifting of supporting themselves.
If "automation" was here in 2020 to bridge the resource gap that was lost by the dissolution of the middle class and their careers in production jobs (like steel mills), then I wouldn't have any negative feelings. But right now we are staring down the barrel of the foreseeable future being a declining economy.
This post was edited by Kayeto on Nov 6 2020 09:56am