[forgetfreeman]

When did killing someone else's livelihood stop being sociopathic?

[rpdillon]

It never was... tools and automation have been central to humanity's progress.

[forgetfreeman]

Automating a stamp mill that fed 50 families does not obviously correlate with human progress. I'm sure it's nice for an auto manufacturer's bottom line though.

[ttoinou]

Since the luddites at least

[orangecat]

"Computer" used to be a job title for a human. Was it sociopathic to introduce mechanical calculators because it made those jobs unnecessary?

[forgetfreeman]

That argument is on really shaky ground in an era of ubiquitous surveillance, social media, Amazon's retail extortion empire.