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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • plutopos@lemmy.zip
    313·
    3 days ago

    Smoking indoors, child labor and slavery are all still here, just transformed and under a different coat of paint

      • plutopos@lemmy.zip
        5·
        3 days ago
        • smoking indoors is done a lot via electronic cigarettes which produce no noticeable smoke
        • slavery is still widely practiced through a loophole; in many countries it’s legal if it’s part of prison work, and many big corporations “rent” convicts for cheap
        • child labor is also still very active in certain countries, which many western companies outsource their work to
        • Tortellinius@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Fair point on the last one, and also the second one if you’re from the U.S. But cigarettes being replaced with vapes, and being banned from many places (like airplanes for example, or whole countries like Sweden recently) does not fit into the picture. Second hand smoke and stink is severely reduced with the bans.