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Are we really going to have the same conversation every single time something about automation is mentioned. I'm just mindblown how hostile people suddenly beca

• ionwake 7y ago
  Yes because we live in a society that currently cannot function without employment
  • anticensor 7y ago
    -cannot +does not It is a deliberate choice by states and elites, not an inability.
  • simonh 7y ago
    That’s been true since the introduction of the Jaquard Loom.
  • ivalm 7y ago
    Have we previously lived in a society that was more friendly to unemployed? Because automation has been happening for a while, people got displaced from their jobs for a while....
• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  >I'm just mindblown how hostile people suddenly became // I welcome automation, I don't welcome the income disparity that goes along with it. Automation needs to serve mankind, not only serve the currently wealthy who can "own the means of automation" to coin a phrase. No longer is the issue owning the means of production, but that the capitalists can owner the tools, and the [robotic] workers. Where does that leave the proletariat (the current workforce)? It leaves them useless to the Capitalists. In Capitalism that which doesn't aid profit becomes valued at zero -- and people can't live on zero, even if that means wealthy people can have their parcels delivered without any human intervention. We can't rely on perpetual growth to get out of it, we're getting to the crunch. What worked before worked because we discovered energy production that seemed limitless, but coal isn't limitless. "But we found oil, surely that's limitless?".