To be fair, we kinda did. Don’t get me wrong, workers are still heavily exploited now, but we’ve come a long way since then. At least we have minimum wage and some degree of workers rights now. Hopefully this current productivity boom can continue to push us along that path and not drive us further into techno dystopia.
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HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
We could have done this 150 years ago when oil gave us 100 times more energy back than it took to extract it.
Humans are a defective species, we must see others suffer.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah it’s just that the socio-economic system we’re stuck with that literally incentivizes ghoulish behavior that causes suffering. Change the system, change humanity.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I think you may have cause and effect inverted.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well yes, ghouls were the ones who invented capitalism, but before that we had feudalism, which was even more ghoulish - but guess what, we don’t go around drawing and quartering criminals anymore, so it looks like I’m right. Change the system, change humanity.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Nah, we just change the methods, the underlying mechanism is the same. For example, you need to win so you wrote “looks like I’m right”, instead of clobbering me. But that innate human need to triumph over the other is still there.