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[deleted] t1_ivqmzap wrote

Reply to comment by Infernalism in A study found that people perceive that robots are replacing human jobs at a greater rate than they actually are. Only 14% of workers say they’ve had their job replaced by a robot. Workers who had been supplanted by a robot estimated that 47% of all jobs have been lost to robots. by Brave_Cycle_8745

Where do we draw the line with that? The cotton gin? The grist mill?

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Mad_Aeric t1_ivrefqx wrote

Pretty much, yeah. The luddites were all about wrecking industrial looms and threshing machines back in the 1700s. The first clothing factory to use sewing machines was burned down in 1830. Hell, stockingers were taking issue with knitting frames all the way back in the 1500s for automating away their jobs.

Don't even get me started on grist mills. There's politics in there.

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[deleted] t1_ivrgh7t wrote

>Don't even get me started on grist mills. There's politics in there

I imagine Marx might be mentioned a time or two hahaha

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CitizenPremier t1_ivrprlk wrote

Restructuring the economic system to enforce the continuing benefit of all people rather than enrichment of the propertied class

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