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It raised the workers wages and increased living standards for everyone Right, but the pitch goes something like this: "sometime after you and your family have
by gaius 8y ago
It raised the workers wages and increased living standards for everyone
Right, but the pitch goes something like this: "sometime after you and your family have starved to death, people you've never met will enjoy increased living standards, and they won't even remember you or your sacrifice, pretty neat huh?".
Not very compelling, is it? Would you take that deal? Something like it is being offered to Workers in the trucking industry right now...
- stochastic_monk 8y agoAnd it's far from the only such industry. We need something like universal basic income, or one of two alternatives will happen: most people will suffer in droves, or they'll break out the metaphorical guillotine of our times. The people at the top of the economic foodchain are usually for too short-sighted to consider what will happen then.
- crispyporkbites 8y agoOur current working environment is quite different now though, for the Luddites the only major employers in the area would have been the factories, and mobility just wasn’t there (you had to live within walking distance of your employer for obvious reasons). A trucker can find another job, and it’s not like we are going to remove truckers overnight, if ever, self driving cars are always a couple of years away and there will be major regulatory and employment hurdles to overcome before those jobs are taken out. It’s not comparable to dropping a new machine into a factory.