• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t disagree, but that bigger picture sentiment isn’t keeping the lights on at Joe’s house.

    For the record: I am completely against the notion that we should stifle technical progress to preserve jobs and the status quo, but I just also feel it’s something that we owe it to ourselves as a society to manage that issue alongside the progress so nobody gets left behind.

    That’s how we ended up with the solidly blue rust belt turning very purple over the past 50 years, and a state of coal miners like West Virginia becoming blood red.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      No doubt. People live and die in the hear and now. Its just frustrating how normal the idea that automating or making things more accessible means that it might ruins peoples lives. Like what a nutty notion, only made possible by the disconnect.