[−]soulofmischief · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:41 UTC ·
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This is like saying the steam engine took people's jobs. It did. Industrialization created even more. This isn't a vouch for industrialization or capitalism but software has certainly enabled all kinds of new classes of creativity and opportunity.
Exactly! So while people would have empathy with people losing their jobs to a steam engine, would they have empathy with workers at the steam engine factory losing their jobs to an automatic riveting machine? Would they have empathy with a steam engine designer losing his job?