
#techworkers #aidisplacement #politicaleconomy | Steven Langbroek
"Revolutions have happened before. People were fine. Life was better after."
If you've said something along these lines about AI, I need you to stick with me through 4 hard-to-hear realities:
1. Pre-industrial displacement happened against a backdrop of commons, kin networks, parish relief, subsistence agriculture as a fallback. Inadequate, maybe, but real. Those structures were deliberately dismantled (enclosure, Poor Law reform, criminalization of vagrancy) so labor would have no alternativ…