Re:'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In
by ethanbond on Sunday October 22, 2023 @09:36AM
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Are the people who can write code (or write checks to people who can write code) the only ones with a legitimate stake in our future?
Might it be that those “useless” people are doing what they can to try to steer toward good outcomes?
“All those goddamn useless people writing articles about dumping chemicals into the river and they’ve never even dumped any chemicals into the rivers themselves!”
In truth they are all the same thing. The utterly useless casting themselves as essential like the typical liberal arts professor, but with less use for general writing writing. A billion "critiques of capitalism" have done less for the poor than one outsourcing to a third world nation. What has the "precautionary principle" wrought for anybody?