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Ludleth19
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Open source stuff is great, and I support it and have contributed to projects myself, but people bandy it out as if it's a silver bullet and I have my reservations there. The issue goes way beyond technology itself, it's structural/sociological/cultural and that's not going to be fixed just because there are open source alternatives.
Ludleth19
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I have no issue with technological advancement, it's obviously one of the pinnacles of human achievement- I have an issue with how those advancements are spread about and shared, especially shortly after large technological advancements happen.

We undoubtedly have reaped immense benefits from the industrial revolution for example- that doesn't mean I'd have any interest in living through it or that it was executed in a way that prioritized the people who lived during those times.
Ludleth19
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
This is just flat out untrue for a variety of reasons. People need to stop thinking of 1945-1975 as "the norm," it was a world historic anomaly that was a direct response to earlier events- the economy targeted full and fair employment to stop people from drifting to more extremist ideologies because everyone literally just lived through the result of highly unregulated capitalism for example. That was a large impetus behind Keynesianism and Bretton Woods, which was ultimately unsustainable and led to the broader global economy we have now- which itself seems more unsustainable by the day.
Ludleth19
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
The implications of technological advancement are always the same- if it can be used to replace people at a satisfactory level, it will. Appealing to stoicism is nice, but it's a bittersweet salve in this situation.