The Dredge Tank
The Dredge Tank. For posting all the low tier reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else. Got some bullshit from Reddit with 2 upvotes and want to share, post it here.
This community was created with the purpose that Rule 8 fans will just block it.
The rules are literally The Dunk Tank's rules, just without rule 8.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
view the rest of the comments
My kneejerk reaction to the "no automation" was negative, but after reading the actual explanation why, I totally agreed.
Automation is better in theory, but in typical capitalist fashion it's mostly done in a hamfisted way to push out labor and ends up costing more in the long run through high initial and long term costs.
In order for tech to work right in blue collar work, it really needs to be designed and implemented almost entirely by the workers themselves.
It usually doesn't even 'push out' labor, it simply makes it have the appearance of being deskilled, so the worker has to learn to not only do the job they were doing before, but recognize when automation is fucking up and usually get paid less.
And not just blue collar. Society has been widely fucked by malinvestment in technology. This isn’t ludditism but the reality that technology isn’t neutral or a net benefit in itself.,