• Flying SquidOP
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      1710 months ago

      Ideally, she would be trained for a new job when those jobs went away. But we just let people suffer under capitalism.

    • Rob T Firefly
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      610 months ago

      If your mother’s employer switched from employing your mother to using a machine which accomplished the same task in an objectively worse, less-dependable way than your mother it would not have been progress.

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      The notion of progress is an ideological artifact used by oligarchs and imperialists to keep the poor rabble pliable and complacent with the modes of exploitation.

    • @Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      -110 months ago

      Yeah they used to have people whose whole job was to put documents in the file system, literally open a draw and put in a typed document. Computer was once a job title, literally just doing basic math all day like adding up columns of numbers. Factories used to be full of machinists who turned dials to set numbers in a sequence and repeated it all day…

      The job market has done nothing but change and evolve, I don’t see why people suddenly want it to stop