It's impossible to divorce the impact of technology in our lives of politics. It's my main gripe with this sub, how most here seem to believe that technology will simply fix our lives by itself and we'll live in a utopia.

>and then you are defining social progress as anything that improves working class living conditions.

Right, what I mean is public housing, food security, zeroing unemployment, decent working legislation (securing existing rights and improving upon them).

I'm not sure how things are where you are but my country is struggling with high unemployment due to failed neoliberal policies and a lot of folks are now stuck in the gig economy enabled by delivery and ride apps. Their living conditions are inhumane and way worse than what delivery folk and cabbies used to have prior to the apps.

>Can you tell me what you mean by social progress ?

Improving the living conditions of the working class.

>For example things like better and more accessible transportation technology have been a huge help in combating poverty, which mind you has been decreasing at an incredible rate due to things like the internet

As I said, they have been a huge help when employed for it. Tech advancement by its own it's neither good nor bad, it's just a tool. Look at what social media has done to us in the name of profit.

Didn't the industrial revolution turn farmers into proletariat? Technological progress will never make the working class's life better if it is not accompanied by social progress.

I do too but we need to get there by working with what we have.

>our life is generally better than 2012 is it not?

Definitely not. Technology has improved a lot but the economy is collapsing, quality of life is eroding, we're seeing the first death throes of our biosphere and fascists have been getting elected all over the world.

The singularity will not be the utopia the fanatics in this sub preach about if we don't improve our political systems as well.