• frizzo@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    I don’t think a light bulb replaced any workers there bub. You might not be the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

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      3 days ago

      There were people who went around lighting oil street lamps and stuff like that before the electric lightbulb.

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          2 days ago

          Probably sat around doing nothing thinking “man I started this job and called it an electrician, but I can’t find work because no one even knows what electricity is. Hell I don’t either.”

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            2 days ago

            Oh I’m sorry I commented. I’m sorry I caused that painful feeling again you have in your brain like once a year. Carry on in your black and white world I’m sure there’s no data we could look at finding the jobs lost from electricity vs the jobs gained.

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              2 days ago

              This whole useless chain of comments was simply an attempt to inform you that there was a type of job that was lost after lightbulbs and electricity came into use because you made a comment that suggested you didn’t know it existed, that’s literally it, anything extra is you jumping to make assumptions. No one is suggesting that there weren’t jobs gained afterwards…

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                1 day ago

                Let me shed a tear for the ice man, milk man, typewriter salesman, and coal heat delivery guy. Some jobs will be lost and won’t be upgraded at all.

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            2 days ago

            Lol I’m sure that’s not bullshit propaganda taught to school children in the USA. A fairy tale, just like the other one "don’t worry about being shot and murdered in school it’s perfectly safe.

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      3 days ago

      There used to be people who were hired to go around lighting the oil street lamps at dusk. Sharpest spoon. lol. Hilariously ironic.

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          3 days ago

          And I’m sure the asteroid field surveyors are mad we are still surveying Earth.

          • frizzo@piefed.social
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            2 days ago

            What does that have to do with oil lamp lighter being replaced by electricians, power generator operators, HVAC technicians. I thought this site had smarter people but alas you all are just dumb gay furries.