• tillimarleen@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    as a luddite you should know that automation‘s goal never was to save us from unwanted labour. But of course this would have to be accomplished first, before your second assumption can ever come true.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I agree. That’s why I said it was their ostensive goal. Their actual goal has only ever been profit.

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          1 year ago

          Oh huh TIL. I also looked it up, and it seems like a real doozy of a word. I had no idea. Looks some some dictionaries say that the two words are interchangeable, whereas others distinguish between them, and in the latter case, I used the wrong one. Language is fun!