• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    ATM’s replaced workers. Self serve gas pumps replaced workers. Self serve checkouts replaced workers. The spinning jenny replaced workers. The light bulb replaced workers. Vending machines replaced workers. None paid taxes.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t think a light bulb replaced any workers there bub. You might not be the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

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        There used to be people who were hired to go around lighting the oil street lamps at dusk. Sharpest spoon. lol. Hilariously ironic.

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              16 hours ago

              What does that have to do with oil lamp lighter being replaced by electricians, power generator operators, HVAC technicians. I thought this site had smarter people but alas you all are just dumb gay furries.

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        There were people who went around lighting oil street lamps and stuff like that before the electric lightbulb.

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            2 days ago

            Probably sat around doing nothing thinking “man I started this job and called it an electrician, but I can’t find work because no one even knows what electricity is. Hell I don’t either.”

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              16 hours ago

              Oh I’m sorry I commented. I’m sorry I caused that painful feeling again you have in your brain like once a year. Carry on in your black and white world I’m sure there’s no data we could look at finding the jobs lost from electricity vs the jobs gained.

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                15 hours ago

                This whole useless chain of comments was simply an attempt to inform you that there was a type of job that was lost after lightbulbs and electricity came into use because you made a comment that suggested you didn’t know it existed, that’s literally it, anything extra is you jumping to make assumptions. No one is suggesting that there weren’t jobs gained afterwards…

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                  3 hours ago

                  Let me shed a tear for the ice man, milk man, typewriter salesman, and coal heat delivery guy. Some jobs will be lost and won’t be upgraded at all.

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              16 hours ago

              Lol I’m sure that’s not bullshit propaganda taught to school children in the USA. A fairy tale, just like the other one "don’t worry about being shot and murdered in school it’s perfectly safe.