Sound familiar?
That same siren song of laborsaving technology echoed throughout the twentieth century, with vacuums and dishwashers and personal computers and 5G networks and on and on and on.
Yet the average number of hours worked (both waged work and housework) hasn’t budged.
The present-day fiction of so-called AI is the same story, second verse.
The people urging AI on us won’t save labor; they will try to degrade that labor, to further alienate us from it, to demand that we work as long and hard and hopelessly as ever.
Unless we refuse.
— @aworkinglibrary, Laborsaving
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112703268806446880