And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.
Manual labor has been being automated since the industrial revolution.
Don_alForno@feddit.de 5 months ago
Manual labor has been being automated since the industrial revolution.
And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Okay but I still have to fold my own laundry.
Womble@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And do you wash your clothes in a bucket, wring them out in a mangler before beating your rugs with a stick to get the dust out of them?
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And I don’t make my own paints either when doing art. I still agree with the basic original point:
It is disappointing that we’re currently automating creativity far faster than manual labour. I’m angry that my art is getting automated away faster than my folding of laundry.
Womble@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The original point being:
emphasis mine, but this is just incorrect. Technology has been reducing the need for manual labour since the wheel and the plow.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not; you’re just looking at the beginning of automating creativity when labor automation has been going on for over a hundred years. The introduction of new tech is always more disruptive than refining established tech. Besides which, VA is particularly sensitive to disruption because every VA does essentially the same job- one AI can be programmed to speak in thousands (millions?) of different voices, whereas one manual labor job doesn’t necessarily require the same actions as another.
Also it’s funny you complain about laundry, given how much doing laundry has been automated.