NateNate60 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

This has been the case for every new technology invented since before the Industrial Revolution.

• Cotton gin: further proliferation of chattel slavery in the American south
• Steam engine: coal barons using child labour and Pinkertons to extract basically forced labour
• Oil: oil companies purchasing legislatures with bulk discount, climate change
• Sewing machine: sweatshops
• Airships: lax safety standards, giant inflammable hydrogen ballons
• Electricity: 5,000 cables haphazardly strung on every lightpole in the city
• Telephone: monopolies charging ten zillion dollars for a long-distance call, eavesdropping, &c.
• Computer: mass surveillance
• Internet: spam emails
• Web 2.0: corporate surveillance for advertising purposes
• Web 3.0: NFT scams
• AI: deepfake porn, rubbish AI “books” flooding Amazon

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• Paper: tax documents