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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by teeray on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:39PM (#49215949)
> look at what happened to printers… I've heard homeless former printers talking about the good days

So what happens is that the capital class absorbs the capital of all those workers and then they all starve. How uplifting.

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by largbae on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:18PM (#49216353)
Eh, chin up. The machines and/or the replaced masses will rise up and kill the capital class in the end.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by copperx on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:03PM (#49216775)
That's the fairy tale the capital class has fed us through mass media. There will be no machine uprising.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by nephihaha on Friday August 07, 2026 @07:20PM (#49217380)
The other fairy tale is when the workers rise up and create utopia. Infallible Marx didn't anticipate cybernetics.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by goatlover on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:43PM (#49218464)
Or unions, New Deals and regulations until the upper class figures out how to undo all that with decades of propaganda and buying off politicians.