mostly just wanted to share since i haven't seen it posted here
this comic really drove home for me that a lot of automation isn't about reducing human labor but rather devaluing it (by providing an automated veneer for human labor)
the part of this that really strikes home for me personally is open source maintenance (which is extremely devalued). there's actually a lot of labor that goes into keeping open source projects up-to-date with their dependencies and to resolve (what are essentially) social issues that people confuse for technical issues
damn yeah actually we need to chew on that, the thing about the labor in free software and open source having been devalued. that framing has strategic implications that it will take us a while to digest.