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There’s an almost unlimited amount of work to do. The elderly/children to care for, the art to be made, the research to be done, etc. Tractors freed up a huge amount of the world population to work on other things, current technology does the same.
The problem is that humans have made a system of tightly controlling what work gets valued, how much it gets paid, what should be done and gatekeeping qualifications/resources to be allowed to do things.
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To cRazi_man’s point there is some work that does needs to be done in order to ensure everyone has food, water, shelter, healthcare, free of poison, etc.
However the vast majority of human labor does not go towards those goals and is instead dedicated to who can get the highest score in ‘slave games’ while that necessary work is grossly undermanned.
It’s not “unlimited” but holy shit is there a lot of damage from the last ~200 years that needs to be undone. Learning and teaching people to rest is a very important one.
It is true already. Washing machines, dishwashers, tractors, lifts, escalators, cars, computers, cnc, power tools, cranes, etc. They make our life much more relaxed.
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Machines make your life chill.
Buisness owners though strive for hell.
And working class likes it. Otherwise where strikes.
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The working class genuinely believes they’re “middle class”
The middle class is a lie pushed by the rich to keep the working class subservient.
Because with productivity the standard of living that most people expect has risen at least as much.
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Capitalism
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Modern horses usually have a short rough life and they are sent to the sausage factory from slightest joint ache. Luckiest end up in some petting farm.
Where do you even get that from? Most horses are pampered lawn ornaments.
Depends very much on the country they are in. Racehorses don’t tend to live very long and there’s still places where horses are being used for transportation, especially in remote mountainous regions.
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There are geographical differences, but in most places their upkeep is expensive and they are mostly used for racing or as beasts of burden. They don’t need much health problems to loose their worth and go to the butchers real easy.
Do you prefer eternal stagnacy just to keep unskilled jobs? No judgment towards “unskilled” but some jobs just die out and create new jobs. The horse’s carts might be gone, but we have cars now with millions of diverse jobs plus legwork. I prefer a car over a horse-ride. And a house over a hut. And mobile phones over smoke-signals or pidgeons.
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That I’d wholeheartedly agree with. We long have reached a state of extreme productivity. Yet the spoils of labour is basically still the same. At least for the 99.9%
We gave up “all-flat-terrain”, carbon neutral, semi-self driving things and got “this road is not paved so I’ll shake you so much that your baby will die”, “created new jobs: climate disaster control”, “just currently getting some self-driving capabilities”.
I’m half-joking of course, cars are great for long distance travel but you could argue humanity would be far better (apart from GDP) if we have no roads in the cities.
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Uhmm… tasty tractor driver sausage. Also glue is made out of horses’ bones
So as a kid I was eating horse?
Only if you were a dumb one
Your mom told you Soylent Green was people, but it was really horses.
It’s a bad metaphor. Tractors are actually useful, AI is garbage.
Just because you might not understand it or see any viable use-case doesn’t make it garbage. Maybe to you. I like LLMs and use different ones for different needs, knowing their limitation.
Reminds me of a visit to amazon where there were a ton of people packaging and labeling stuff into boxes and then into the robots. At the end of the tour we got to see a machine that eats a roll of cardboard and creates boxes on the fly for objects that are flowing into the machine from another conveyor. So the next phase will be people just taking stuff out of the truck and putting it on a conveyor.
Maybe they can find a side show in Tijuana:
There’s plenty for a horse-like aminal to do apparently.
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