moniJul 25, 2017
crows call me breadlady
automation threatens our survival only because so many of us can only access the means of survival by selling our labor, but it doesn't have to be like this. machinery itself is no more the enemy of the people than the yak or the plow. capitalism is the enemy.
Jul 13, 2017 at 5:11pmWeb
Show threadbrennenJul 13, 2017

@garbados i'm not entirely sure it doesn't also threaten our survival in ecological terms.

i mean: computation seems like it's one of the major drivers (on top of fossil fuel extraction) for a civilization operating at a scale the biosphere probably can't withstand for much longer.