• style99@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    What’s the point of bringing up “ethics?” The job only existed in the first place because of technology, and now people want to argue that there is a right or wrong aspect to it?

    How about the poor candle makers or buggy whip manufacturers? Should we keep downgrading society just to keep a few “artists” happy?

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        Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.

        If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and leads to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?

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      The concern is that the training and potentially production voices are not properly compensated or consenting

      It’s not so much that a new tool is used, it’s that it exists due to the artistic product of people who aren’t profiting from the novel use

      A job coming or going isn’t the true issue

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        6 months ago

        Then let’s go back to ploughing our fields by hand, surely that will create many new employment opportunities!

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        More importantly, the system we all accept (willingly or not) requires that people be employed to survive.

        It’s not a matter of wanting to be employed, as needing to be employed.