The Right to Be Free From Automation
The replacement of humans by automatic check-outs at the supermarket is a tragedy for the now unwanted workers who are thrown on the scrap heap, but in an egalitarian world, would we really want more people performing this boring task if can be performed by a machine instead? One of the great arguments for socialism has always been that the
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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
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Why do these businesses care so much? I suspect they aren’t really worried about AI—they're clinging to an old belief that if work isn't visibly difficult to produce, it must be less valuable. When we dig beneath the surface of "no-AI" policies and detection tools, we find an age-old assumption that worth must be measured in struggle. This mindset
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