Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ...
by ahoy on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:20PM
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Losing your job to automation is bad for your livelihood. It has been since we started automating things.
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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ...
by wolco on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:24PM
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Is it bad for your children's livelihood? You are sending a message on a computer made by a machine. Parts are so small it would be impossible to do by hand which created a number of other jobs to support this new ability.
Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ...
by ahoy on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:05PM
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To the extent that my children depend on me to eat, yes, its bad for their livelihood.
I'm saying that technology is _bad_. I'm saying that losing your job is bad, and if your boss replacing you with a machine is what causes that you're right to be upset.
Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ...
by heavyset_go on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:54PM
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> Is it bad for your children's livelihood?
Yes, there are numerous documented detrimental effects to children raised in poverty, and many of those effects follow them for life.
Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ...
by throwawayhhakdl on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:44PM
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If you work in the fields, and I invent tech that makes you twice as efficient, the most likely result is that half of people like you lose their jobs, and wages stay the same, if not decline due to oversupply.
Might be great for me, but it sucks balls for you. And it tends to suck balls for more people than it helps.
Edit: and that basically follows through to your kids...