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> look at what happened to printers… I've heard homeless former printers talking about the good days

So what happens is that the capital class absorbs the capital of all those workers and then they all starve. How uplifting.

Eh, chin up. The machines and/or the replaced masses will rise up and kill the capital class in the end.

That's the fairy tale the capital class has fed us through mass media. There will be no machine uprising.

The other fairy tale is when the workers rise up and create utopia. Infallible Marx didn't anticipate cybernetics.

Or unions, New Deals and regulations until the upper class figures out how to undo all that with decades of propaganda and buying off politicians.