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Its getting old. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We beat scarcity. We're up to our eyeballs in labor-saving technology. We just left people in charge who cannot imagine using it to save labor.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's about control. They don't want to lose that control. They don't deserve that control. We need to take control back.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Exactly, automation shouldn't kick some people out of jobs and leave others just as overworked as before, it should automate things that don't absolutely need humans and just decrease the workload of (currently) irreplaceable people so that more people can work as much as one did before and still get the same salary.

    Hell, unemployment as a whole should not exist in the modern era. If there's "too few jobs", decrease working hours and increase wages accordingly so the total monthly/yearly/whatever pay is the same. And if there just physically aren't enough resources to accomodate so many people having decent salaries (which is absolutely not the case right now), then we should start talking about overpopulation.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    And if there just physically aren’t enough resources to accomodate so many people having decent salaries (which is absolutely not the case right now), then we should start talking about overpopulation.

    Don't blame overpopulation, blame the C-levels who think they need to take home 500k+ a year salaries.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The problem is as long there is no national wide law that forces companies to do so one would have much higher costs employing 2 people half time for the same job as 1 full time (with unpaid overtime of course as a bonus). And a Business that can't compete won't exist long. Or rather nobody even tries it because only greedy people are getting in high power positions for some reason.

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