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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*.