▲ 205 ▼ The myth of "consensual" internet (thelemmy.club) submitted 10 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Do you think the Luddites were wrong? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago* If we did what they wanted, I couldn't afford the clothes I'm wearing. Or probably a lot of other things - shit tons has improved since the late 1700's. Sure, there's less weaver jobs now, and there will be less digital artist jobs in the future. Arguably, the past few centuries have shown that if there's other things that we can do instead, it's still for the best. (If there's not, a whole new conversation opens up) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago* If we did what they wanted, I couldn't afford the clothes I'm wearing. Or probably a lot of other things - shit tons has improved since the late 1700's. Sure, there's less weaver jobs now, and there will be less digital artist jobs in the future. Arguably, the past few centuries have shown that if there's other things that we can do instead, it's still for the best. (If there's not, a whole new conversation opens up) permalink fedilink source parent
