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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by deknos on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:11AM (#40758498)
> History shows the labor unions and leftists would also be against replicators.

Only because the rich would exploit the replicators and would leave everyone else in the dust starving.

Nobody would have a problem with it, if you could survive on them.

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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by account42 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @05:54AM (#40786477)
Exactly. If AI would free you from having to work to survive there would be a lot less opposition. But it doesn't while taking away some of the better options for said work from some people.
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