• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ideally, she would be trained for a new job when those jobs went away. But we just let people suffer under capitalism.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      If your mother’s employer switched from employing your mother to using a machine which accomplished the same task in an objectively worse, less-dependable way than your mother it would not have been progress.

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      The notion of progress is an ideological artifact used by oligarchs and imperialists to keep the poor rabble pliable and complacent with the modes of exploitation.