The world we have is ugly enough, but tech capitalists desire an even uglier one. The logical conclusion of having a society run by tech capitalists interested in elite rule, eugenics, and social control is ecological ruin and a world dominated by surveillance and apartheid. A world where our technological prowess is finely tuned to advance the exploitation, repression, segregation, and even extermination of people in service of some strict hierarchy.

If you’re posting here, you’re probably familiar with most of the stuff in this article already, but it’s nice to see criticism in this vein coming from more mainstream sources.

  • BadAdvice@lemmy.world
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    You can’t have robot overlords without the capitalist hellscape in which they are forged. We could probably pull it off with a lot less harm to the environment or whatever, but we didn’t. It was cheaper to fuck everything up instead of doing difficult things like waste management or environmental impact studies, so we’ve just done that since forever up to and including the present day. I think the ancients had it right. Don’t fear God, don’t fear death, what is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure. Either we figure out the machine gods or the planet kills us first and the next meat bags get a chance.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t have robot overlords without the capitalist hellscape in which they are forged

      neither please

      I think the ancients had it right. Don’t fear God, don’t fear death, what is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure.

      none of this either, thanks

      it’s very hard to talk to someone who’s too busy cosplaying as a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters

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        1 year ago

        Don’t knock robot overlords till you try them. I once had a supervisor replaced with an excel script and it was the best boss I’d ever had.