Admiring a technology and detesting its human effects can coexist in one person

Evidence

You worshipped iron, but were moved to tears by Hesiod’s tirades against the Iron Age. You threw your lot in with the communists, knowing full well that, if your side won, you would end up in the gulag. You fell in love with every furnace, pipe, conveyor belt and crane in the steel factory where you worked, but remained horrified by their tendency to mechanise, alienate and dehumanise the workers appended to them. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 355

Categorization

• XREF: The steel-mill admiration/horror couplet parallels the author’s love-hate with technofeudal cloud capital.
• APHORISMS: Admiring the machinery while loathing what it does to the workers who serve it is a liveable posture—not hypocrisy.