Cool tech, shame that the point of the tech is to make people “productive” again instead of to increase their quality of life. Wishing cool innovation wasn’t tied to profit, but to the expansion of humanity’s freedom overall.
Most people actually want to be productive. If you’ve ever been sick and unable to do anything for a prolonged period of time, you’d know how excruciating it is. There’s a big difference between being productive and being exploited.
I know, my family has a genetic disorder and two of my three sisters can’t work and I know exactly how painful it is for them to feel useless, I have the same disorder and I’m staring down the barrel of my body and telling me I can’t work anymore and it’s terrifying. I also talk to people all the time who believe that socialism can’t work because everyone just wants to be lazy and I use the same argument that people want to be productive, they want to be useful to society. But I feel like there’s a big difference between people being able to do what they’re passionate about because it’s beneficial to society and people answering customer service questions for corporate profit. XD basically I agree with your point, I just dislike exploitation and it feels to me like using this technology to enable people to do more with bodies that couldn’t before, only to be able to re-enter this wage slavery market so they can help produce corporate profits… does not feel like the win I wish the technology was. Does that make sense? It’s early for me, I hope it makes sense.
Cool tech, shame that the point of the tech is to make people “productive” again instead of to increase their quality of life. Wishing cool innovation wasn’t tied to profit, but to the expansion of humanity’s freedom overall.
Most people actually want to be productive. If you’ve ever been sick and unable to do anything for a prolonged period of time, you’d know how excruciating it is. There’s a big difference between being productive and being exploited.
I know, my family has a genetic disorder and two of my three sisters can’t work and I know exactly how painful it is for them to feel useless, I have the same disorder and I’m staring down the barrel of my body and telling me I can’t work anymore and it’s terrifying. I also talk to people all the time who believe that socialism can’t work because everyone just wants to be lazy and I use the same argument that people want to be productive, they want to be useful to society. But I feel like there’s a big difference between people being able to do what they’re passionate about because it’s beneficial to society and people answering customer service questions for corporate profit. XD basically I agree with your point, I just dislike exploitation and it feels to me like using this technology to enable people to do more with bodies that couldn’t before, only to be able to re-enter this wage slavery market so they can help produce corporate profits… does not feel like the win I wish the technology was. Does that make sense? It’s early for me, I hope it makes sense.
Right, when people are forced to work that’s a problem, but people having an option to do so is a positive.