I agree with you, I just hate that it rarely ever even makes it into the conversation. “We need to regulate this new technology until we pass this other legislation that we are actively working towards which I will now outline” would be far more productive than just “This is bad and we need to ban it.”
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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoSure it’s a nice idea but in the current system, these robots don’t make life easier for poor people, they just make rich people richer. The luddites smashed looms not because they hated progress but because they needed employment to buy food to eat. Until we solve that, there will be new luddites with every new technology created to displace workers.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
This is easily solved by heavily taxing the rich instead of banning innovation.
limerod@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Is it really solved, if its not done in practice? The rich make sure its not done and the laws are made in way they can evade taxes.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Oh no, it’s absolutely not done anywhere near as much as it should be. What I mean is that I think this is still the easier route than just continually destroying robots because they’ll simply beef up security more and more until we can no longer overcome it.