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If the only reason those people have jobs is that we feel pity for them and don't want to automate their work, then what they have is not a job. It's just disgu
by saint_fiasco 10y ago
If the only reason those people have jobs is that we feel pity for them and don't want to automate their work, then what they have is not a job. It's just disguised welfare.
Why not just give them actual welfare?
- preordained 10y agoBut will we...give them actual welfare, training, some transition? Or are we going to bring in the automation and let nature take its course?
- saint_fiasco 10y agoThe parent comment men says they are in Barcelona, so maybe it won't be politically impossible to just give them welfare. In the US, it might require some doublespeak to keep people from revolting at the "socialist" implications of paying people for not working.