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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are becoming or have been for decades...?

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] pickman_model@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

A few millennia, actually

[–] isles@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It's valuable for them to frame it as a recent problem, because then the solution is to just "go back to how it was a few years ago".

To frame it as a foundational problem of modern civilization means more disruption to the power balance.

[–] Sdnimm543 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Exactly what I was gonna say.

The only difference in recent years is that regulations have been loosened, allowing them to increase their abusive practices.

[–] pickman_model@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

are becoming

Unlike when?

[–] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago

I recall hearing that already during the classical antiquity the Greeks and later the Roman could have invented steam engines (for reference of their technical skills see the Antikythera mechanism), but the abundance of cheaper slave workers made this economically infeasible.

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 7 points 8 months ago

The Atlantic slave trade says what?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Paywalled article :|