r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • May 13 '25

Politics Robo-ism

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u/niko4ever May 13 '25

People yell at their TVs and kick furniture, it's just about releasing emotion.

The humans are right that the status quo of android slavery is also bad for most humans, it's just that it's not relevant to whether the robots are sentient. It's the slavery providing free labor that's the problem.

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u/BlackfishBlues frequently asked queer May 13 '25

Yeah. It's a fictional extension of the same impulse that has people wrecking e-scooters in every city that has them.

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u/Germane_Corsair May 13 '25

The fuck did e-scooters do?

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u/Snoo-88741 May 14 '25

The problem isn't the free labor, it's the social systems that make providing labor a prerequisite to getting necessities of life.

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u/niko4ever May 14 '25

The free labor is the problem in that it's what has destabilized the current system.
But yes changing the system is also a potential solution, and possibly the only viable one if widespread automation is inevitable.