were they correct to be worried /pol/?
No. Let capitalism win.
>>524200103capitalism depends on a just use of capital and the tools it affords
history is mad isn't it?
>>524199792There is a balance between efficiency and quality, but automation does not necessarily mean lower quality. In practice they were more correct than they thought. It might also just be due to choosing to live a life of cheap, imported good from the 3rd world.
>>524199792yesobviously technology is good in a vacuumbut their specific worries were about the capitalist oligarchs using the technology to consolidate wealth, suppress wages, and fire (kill) employees
>>524199792Kindof. Humanity was not meant for this pace and to compete with machines for resources that allow them to live, convenience speaks for itself however. You live a more comfortable life than at any point in history, but suffering is only relative to the time you live, not the future or the past, but this new suffering comes with a lack of fulfilment of the spiritual needs. Sure you can flip a light switch and have light and have running water, but perhaps the lack of this things was what made humanity more driven to do better and be better, now that these things are solved you are racing towards nothing and its getting faster as time passes, and the only thing not being fulfilled is a spiritual hunger. What is this all for.Industrial revoloution and its consequences etc. Maybe the pure state of man was to live by candle light in straw beds where finding food was his daily endevour, or maybe he fucking hates it and wants to make something better and thats why he made the machines. Maybe well get to an end point where we really dont have to work and machines do everything for survival and it all works, or maybe the luddites were right.