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> it would attempt to ensure quality of life for your class of people (and their families) as much as possible.

What is “your class of people”, and why is it threatened by what other people do with coding robots?

You can try to dress it up as an intellectual argument, but at root it’s the same thing that the luddites were trying to do: defending your preferred lifestyle from technological advances.

We, the ditch diggers of the world, support your unqualified resistance to the use of steam shovels! Fewer holes, slower!



Your argument boils down to the idea that human life is not worth defending, even when capital actively undermines it by undercutting honest people's honest efforts to work for a living.

Thank you for outing yourself as a low-empathy, capital-aligned individual who makes bad-faith arguments, I'll know not to engage you from now on.




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