Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition: 1

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Many people have negative feelings about technology and a majority of 69,000 surveyed in North America can be classified as “technological pessimists”. With all the work that has been done by Western civilization to stamp it out, there are still some places in the world where slavery is still rife.

Some NGOs, likeLiberty Asia, are using cloud and database tech to help in the fight against modern slavery.And yet, in any civilized society even the most nefarious of prisoners has some rights. Freedom of speech is one of these. Every prisoner in any modern nation should have the right to communicate to outsiders, to express his or her ideas, and even to publish books or artwork, provided they hold to the same broad restrictions of any citizen. American prisoners cannot profit from their work—this is the famous ‘Son of Sam’ law—but that is not at issue here. Kaczynski gets not one dime of profit from this book. But he cannot be denied the legal or moral right to express his views.

Faced with persistent technological crises, there is also the common attitude of ‘no pain, no gain’:“Yes, there are inevitable problems with technology, but they are a necessary part of the learning process. Without the pain of the mistakes we could not enjoy the gains that technology offers.” This line of thinking would be fine, if (a) the pains were predictable, limited, and manageable; (b) they were fairly and justly distributed; and (c) the ‘gains’ were in fact true improvements on the human condition. Kaczynski argues, rightly I think, that all three of these assumptions are false. And not just ‘a little false,’ but radically false—false in a deeply deceiving fashion. You’ve called face-to-face conversations “the most human thing we do.” What are the consequences of living in a world where we do this less and less? Sherry Turkle The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.Leftists tend to support various social movements, including feminism, gay rights, ethnic rights, disability rights, animal rights, and political correctness. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

See Reuters news story (27 April 2007) on a report of the Irish government: “Text messaging harms written language.” Teens were found to be “unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses, and a limited vocabulary.” Domestic servitude, sexual slavery, and servile forms of marriage. As a legally permitted labour system, traditional slavery has been abolished everywhere but it has not been completely eradicated. It can persist as a state of mind among victims and their descendants and among the inheritors of those who practised it long after it has formally ended. [7] T he] recruitment, movement, harboring or receiving of children, women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of vulnerability, deception or other means for the purpose of exploitation." - NHS England.

 How technology and slavery are intrinsically linked

But we think that for the majority of people the need for the power process is not fully satisfied.