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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Book by Brian Merchant · 2 quotes · Capital, Labor, Automation

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“The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and quite simply, a matter of the executive classes locating new ways to enrich themselves.”

Labor Management Capital Automation

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“The biggest reason that the last two hundred years have seen a series of conflicts between the employers who deploy technology and workers forced to navigate that technology is that we are still subject to what is, ultimately, a profoundly undemocratic means of developing, introducing, and integrating technology into society.”

Capitalism Labor Capital

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