alt Hacker NewsThe real split is between people that believe technological progress is good by itself and by the law of nature it always makes life better and easier, and people that know the history and know that stuff like 8 hours workday wasn't spat out of steam machine - it had to be fought for through political struggle, because actual "natural" consequence of increased productivity was increase in workload.
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Interesting to see more of this thinking on Hacker News
Perhaps one of the secondary effects of AI replacing developers will be mobilising a group of smart, motivated people to the left
(It's always interesting to think of the secondary effects which kick in past a certain point of growth. High-multiple stock valuations often fail to take these into account. For the East India Company, for example — your company can keep growing until it's the size of a country. But suddenly other countries treat you as a foreign power rather than a pet.)
The absolutist extremes here is wild. Let's just push the pedal to the metal.
The real split are between those that support science and technology, and those that hate science and technology and want to see more children die.
The real split is between the capital owners, who live on our labour, typically through inheritance of a piece of paper that says they own a percentage of what I make.