Lefty friends sharing this, and I agree a bit
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Before it went full-retard at the mid-way mark, it was making the point that oppressive regimes/organizations use technology and the power of fads/stupid people to improve their weapons and tools for controlling the masses. Then it went off into companies using this same method to develop tools to make money are bad, mkay. Because people who develop shit are being cheated, mkay. And corporations are bad, mkay? Mkay.
Merger tools (because it's not a fucking AI) were always going to develop and were always going to be a problem. This has been a process of automation since the beginning. Computers put mathematicians out of work. Spinning wheels and industrial looms put weavers out of work.
Leftists are complaining now because their once niche industries, their ivory towers, are finally being encroached upon and how dare the peasants not decry this from the very heavens! SHOUT DOWN THE INDUSTRIALIST! BURN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION!
Adapt and survive or cope, seethe, and dilate.
While I agree with you in spirit, automation remains a long-term problem for everyone. Even if your particular industry can't be automated, society as a whole is going to have to figure out what to do with the growing mass of unemployed people who are literally incapable of doing high IQ jobs. Importing huge numbers of additional low IQ people from the third world is only going to accelerate this problem.
The high IQ rugged individual can only 'adapt and survive' for so long while society falls apart around him.
"If there was a device that someone invented that improved the economic development of society, at the cost at 10 000 deaths a year, would be allow it? Well, we already do: it's call the automotive."
There is a very real possibility that self-driving cars become widespread by the end of the decade. If that happens, millions of Americans will be out of a job. This isn't like how the car displaced the horse-and-buggy but opened up a means of employment to millions. This is no viable path for someone who spent decades driving a semi to start deciphering computer runes.
How many people died falling off of horses or being kicked in the head by horses prior to the automobile a year? And percentage wise how similar is that number to the overall population that the 10000 automobiles deaths make up?
I don't know, how many horses end up plowing through the side of someone's house or trample over a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk?
Anyway, nice job missing the point, Autismo Maximus.
EDIT: Amerimutts seethe when you tell them that a large metal box going at 30mph is dangerous and might hurt someone.