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The more the machine is improved and the more quickly and more precisely it performs a human worker’s labor, the worker, instead of extending his former rest times, redoubles his ardor, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
As ever, the problem with a gadget isn't what it does: it's who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*. There are plenty of benefits from being a centaur – lots of ways that automation can help workers. But the only path to AI profitability lies in *reverse* centaurs, automation that turns the human in the loop into the crumple-zone for a robot:
Humans Are Not Perfectly Vigilant
Cory Doctorow
But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment, the global poor, and the civilizational future their oppression portends.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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