Vid clip - https://xcancel.com/tsarnick/status/1842401670225125539
I made the big mistake of watching that. And now [redacted]. Holy mother of fuck are tech bros evil.
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At least Whitney was actually trying to do something good. "If I invent a thing that ends slavery and does so without bloodshed" is a decent enough reason to invent a thing.
The techbro death cult is more like "If we create more slaves, the price of slaves will drop to zero due to supply vs. demand. Then we'll all own too many slaves, so we'll be forced to sell them off."
"That...that doesn't actually end slavery tho?"
"Just trust me bro we gotta make slave cloning machines bro it's the inevitable future."
Yeah, I won't deny that the cotton gin was a technical improvement.
My point is that the belief that a technical improvement will by itself undo the consequent damage that it causes without societal change is just techbro shit.