1w ago

This is your brain on Hacker News

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Glad to know I am not the only anticapitalist and sadomasochist reading HN.
Btw, there's a lot of editorial work on the "Best" front page. I have switched over to visiting from https://news.social-protocols.org/upvoterate
Ah yes those goddamn greedy workers.
All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.
Wanting the fruits of their own labor? Damn you, greedy laborers!
Yeah man, think of all the greedy workers stealing the value of their labor from the poor capitalists!
- I don't think the commenter is saying that as their own opinion, but as the real reason capitalists are developing automation.
I read that as sarcasm.
- It's possibly sarcasm, but I wouldn't count on that given it's HN.
- It's HN, they're dead serious.
  
  how do you know? it reads to me as if "greed" was in quotes
Wat
- Yeah, that last word gave me a huge mental whiplash. He was doing ok up till then.
  
  Pretty sure that's intended to be read as the perspective of the owner class, not the commenter's own perspective.
It's almost as if an industrialized society needs to be socialized to an extent so the hoi polloi also sees the return on these labor reducing machines
Like if we the people create some sort of organization where we are all represented, and these labor reducing machines were owned by such an organization to work for everyone, that would give everyone the benefit of less required work.
Automation seems to be more of a thing pushed by corporations to reduce their reliance on workers.
If youre not doing neomalthusian scarcity fetishism, why even bother waking up?

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