>if factory work is automated - they'll have no other possible job, and no safety net I know, and it's morally disgusting and I wish systems like this didn't e

>if factory work is automated - they'll have no other possible job, and no safety net I know, and it's morally disgusting and I wish systems like this didn't exist in the first place. What I'm saying is that there is no future in which automation does not replace (most) human labor, so if the goal is ROI, then why would YC ever invest in something other than that? It would be delaying the inevitable, would it not? Let's say YC provides a UBI to all of those displaced workers; now what? A bunch of unemployed are (still) surviving in the same fucked up system as before and the problem still exists. To somehow pin the problems of the system on YC's investments is ignoring the larger, more pressing problems of socioeconomic inequality and exploitation as a whole.