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Eagle367 said:
sc94597 said:

I mean "over-financialization", "slopification", and "enshitification" (not necessarily in that language) was one of the criticisms of the industrial revolution. Thinking of textiles before and after industrialization. One of the big arguments was that it commercialized and reduced the quality of what were unique craft outputs.  

Those two things are not the same for one and for two that critique is correct. The quality of textile has fallen, for example. 

I wasn't disagreeing that it was correct. My point was that the situation we find ourselves in now is very much analogous to what the original luddites found themselves in. Textile production was no less intellectual and creative than any of the current jobs being outmoded. It's only thought to be so because the labor was devalued with the introduction of industry. 

I really don't believe in the concept of unskilled labor. The automation of physically involved labor and intellectual labor is the same in my opinion. There is a lot of creativity in physical labor just like there is in intellectual labor. And we're starting to discover that it is harder to automate the last few pieces of physical labor which haven't been automated than it is to automate a lot of intellectual labor, because embodied intelligence is lagging behind other fields of AI and automation.