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   Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 10:14:24 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

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   @mike @pluralistic

   Oof, that's worth a bookmark...

   So.

   I worked at a tech startup and heard a talk given by a venture capitalist.

   He was waxing poetic about the big future potential of self-driving vehicles, and was frank about why:

   He hoped that this would destroy the jobs of 30 million people employed driving things...

   To workers, the tech pitch to us, is that we will each get a cool robot servant.

   To oligarchs, their hope is that workers are *eliminated*.