The world we have is ugly enough, but tech capitalists desire an even uglier one.

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.

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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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

    • BadAdvice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.