The Reddit mob generally seems to lean socialist/short term thinking. The same ones that lament the closing of the mom-and-pop store on Main street yet do all their shopping on Amazon.
The Romans replaced their yeoman farmer class with a "lump of labor" after the Punic Wars. Spelled the end of the republic ("public thing"). Massive farm and factory consolidation led to men richer than the state itself. Crassus, Caesar's fellow triumvir, may have been the wealthiest person ever.
"...that's how progress works." More like "that's how you put millions on the dole and an opium addiction." We're barbaric little stalins, aren't we: it's all just statistics. I don't know what "progress" is, but let's not toss these people as sacrifices into the fires of the "moloch of abstractions." They're real people and they have lives. And the people driving this technological displacement aren't doing so out of some knowledge of, or will to do good. (I don't care about tucker or whether the trucks are automated or not).
Get out into the economy, Marx. You'll see stuff. I spent a week trucking, delivering cars, with a high school friend (almost all of whom are working class), and truck automation would have to come with many, many trillions dollars of infrastructure changes over decades. My apologies to Yang Gang.
Check out such ideas as the "cult of progress" or the worship of technology in the US and Europe since the loss of religion.
"...God is dead, the Titans live – and technology is the armor of the Titans." –Ernst Jünger
Biggest fallacy here is that Tucker Carlson is a conservative. He's actually just a Republican
Maybe conservative populist?
The Reddit mob generally seems to lean socialist/short term thinking. The same ones that lament the closing of the mom-and-pop store on Main street yet do all their shopping on Amazon.
The Romans replaced their yeoman farmer class with a "lump of labor" after the Punic Wars. Spelled the end of the republic ("public thing"). Massive farm and factory consolidation led to men richer than the state itself. Crassus, Caesar's fellow triumvir, may have been the wealthiest person ever.
"...that's how progress works." More like "that's how you put millions on the dole and an opium addiction." We're barbaric little stalins, aren't we: it's all just statistics. I don't know what "progress" is, but let's not toss these people as sacrifices into the fires of the "moloch of abstractions." They're real people and they have lives. And the people driving this technological displacement aren't doing so out of some knowledge of, or will to do good. (I don't care about tucker or whether the trucks are automated or not).
Get out into the economy, Marx. You'll see stuff. I spent a week trucking, delivering cars, with a high school friend (almost all of whom are working class), and truck automation would have to come with many, many trillions dollars of infrastructure changes over decades. My apologies to Yang Gang.
Check out such ideas as the "cult of progress" or the worship of technology in the US and Europe since the loss of religion.
"...God is dead, the Titans live – and technology is the armor of the Titans." –Ernst Jünger