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I mean at the most extreme: that it can NEVER do so. Someone who holds this position would point to commits like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159659
To that I can only respond with never say never. Not this year? Yes. Not next year? Sign me up. Not in the next 10 years? Let’s say I’m looking at my hardware career options after 20 years in software.
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This could be a comment about the industrial revolution.
The industrial revolution's immediate effect was to radically lower lifespans and lengthen working hours. After all of those people suffered and died, lifespans gradually got long again, although working hours never went back to normal. You might think it was worth it now because you got an iphone, but they didn't get an iphone.
And it is true, those people did not got an iPhone and died, but this is also you saying this for them. You don't know all the specifics of history or all their motivations, the industrial revolution had a bloody story, but it's origins were also organic, it also had aspects of improvement. The world population grew almost 10x.
I don't think we are in a position to judge those past events to the lens you are posing.