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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Tillie the Toiler

Tillie the Toiler
I'm reading Glacier Pilot by Beth Day and on page 122 she mentions Tillie the Toiler. Tillie was a nationally syndicated comic strip that ran from 1921 to 1959.

In 1933 Rosie Robot makes an appearance and eventually we are faced with a dilemma:

Tillie the Toiler - It's All Fog To Mack
All though the 1930s the world seemed to cry out for robots to alleviate the endless toil of the working class while simultaneously realizing that jobs were already impossible to find for a quarter of the workforce. - Steve Carper
Sounds just like the same argument about jobs I've been hearing forever.

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