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by lloydgrossman 1626 days ago
>Tell me why should technological change benefit workers?

Technological benefits make individual workers more productive, allowing them to be exploited for more profit. If you don't understand the economics or incentive of the situation, there's no reasoning you out of a box you didn't reason yourself into.

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> Technological benefits make individual workers more productive, allowing them to be exploited for more profit.

It also makes harder jobs easier and in some cases allows someone unskilled to perform a job that a only a more highly skilled person could do. Thus someone is easier to replace and thus cheaper.

> If you don't understand the economics or incentive of the situation, there's no reasoning you out of a box you didn't reason yourself into.

I understand it fine. Technological advances is a double edged sword with regards to Labour. It may create whole new industries while destroying old ones.

You are talking about people like they are commodities. That is your problem.