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Adrahil

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7. This has been the call with every major technological revolution. Not buying it.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sat Aug 20, 2016, 05:45 PM

Aug 2016

In the late middle ages, the invention of the water wheel lead to the first mass production. Some decried to destruction of small craftsman. In the late 8th century, the invention of powered looms was decried as the end of cottage industry. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution saw a dramatic transformation away from bespoke goods to mass produced goods. Instead of owning 2-3 good suits of clothes, people could now afford 10-20. The jobs change.

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Today�s Tech Oligarchs Are Worse Than the Robber Barons [View all] cali Aug 2016 OP

No. They are not. Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #1

You're ruining an ongoing meme that we're all laboring under the Hortensis Aug 2016 #3

I am in total agreement that the oligarchs are out of control Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #6

Definitions matter, huge, Drahtaardogs. Hortensis Aug 2016 #8

We are not an oligarchy, we are not subjects, and we are far better than my ancestors Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #9

+100. I don't think we differ at all in our worry Hortensis Aug 2016 #11

Uber, based on an App, made its creator a billionaire while guillaumeb Aug 2016 #2

Recommended! This is a dangerous trend that is mostly off our radar AikidoSoul Aug 2016 #4

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! OLIGARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MohRokTah Aug 2016 #5

This has been the call with every major technological revolution. Not buying it. Adrahil Aug 2016 #7

The "Libertechians" imagine themselves to be Nietzschean Ubermenschen. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #10

I was married to one for 20 years.... alittlelark Aug 2016 #12

I'm sorry. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #13

Modern billionaires in general are also less charitable than their Gilded Age counterparts. HughBeaumont Aug 2016 #14