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Episode 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of ‘Automation’

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Are You a Hater of Technology?

Peter Bergen: The term ludite is shorthand for people who either don't understand or actively hate technology. But the term itself has a really fascinating origin that actually is quite different than just that sort of, you're a hater on what is new and inevitable. He says arguments about automation and work are not arguments fundamentally about technology but about workers' power to control their own fate. And so i think history should be re-examined over whether it's good or bad to have advanced labor saving technology. Orlote fargo dismisses self driving cars because employees can get cheaper elsewhere.

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