
Drostyar
@drostyar
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"For one thing, if mechanization opened new vistas of comfort and prosperity for all men, it also destroyed the livelihood of some and left others to vegetate in the backwaters of the stream of progress. Change is demonic; it creates, but it also destroys, and the victims of the Industrial Revolution were numbered in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. (On the other hand, many of these would have been even worse off without industrialization.) By the same token, the Industrial Revolution tended, especially in its earlier stages, to widen the gap between rich and poor and sharpen the cleavage between employer and employed, thereby opening the door to class conflicts of unprecedented bitterness."
— The Unbound Prometheus
I believe the same will happen in the information revolution (aka the robotics, ai and decentralized finance revolution)
https://nook.social/content/5726b443-a8e1-4a5c-b7f1-4d400a94ebd2 1 reply
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