“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

https://archive.is/wGp2F

So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to “new model” the old model.

  • @Damage@feddit.it
    4•2 months ago

    Aside from what @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone wrote, ideally we’ll reduce human labor to overseeing machines, at least on industrial lines, over time.

        • @jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          Development of technology isnt always progress. Sometimes its a step backwards.

          Progress depends on if it does good or bad. If it just causes a greater disparity of wealth (while building crappy machines that are designed for obsolescence and people dont need), then it is not progress.

          Example: looms are arguably progress (almost everyone needs cloth). Robots that manufacturer ICE SUVs are not progress (making more gas guzzlers is causing mass extinction).

          • @Damage@feddit.it
            1•2 months ago

            Don’t confuse technological and societal progress.

            It may not be positive for society, but you still can’t stop progress, if you don’t develop what’s possible, someone else will.

              • @Damage@feddit.it
                1•2 months ago

                Yeah and the countries that don’t will pass you by and become your next lords. It’s an unfortunate situation humankind is in.

                • @jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
                  1•2 months ago

                  Pass me by how? Look at the US and China. Those have polluted the most and they’re fucking terrible to live there.