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And some troll was arguing with me a month or so ago about how technology supposedly reduces workloads.
I kept explaining to them how any increases in efficiency only lead their employers to give them more work to do. The laborers are still milked for the value of their labor, in some cases for even longer hours. The only difference is the employer benefits from the increased production.
They seriously tried arguing that the industrial revolution was somehow good for textile workers. Like no, traditional craftspeople got run out of business because they couldn't keep up with the sweatshops that employed children in dangerous conditions for absurdly long hours for very little pay with no days off, and all just to create a soulless product that could be sold in larger quantities.
AI is no different, except that it doesn't even increase profits for the employers.
Harris Tweed must, by law, be made by home weavers on non-electric looms, in the weavers' own homes on the Outer Hebrides Islands:
They saw the value of keeping the traditions alive, and even wrote it into law.