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odd the focus on "jobs" .. almost like provocation Instead, think of machine services: fully-automated ones like "ads" or semi-automated like news stories, rec
by mistrial9 4y ago
odd the focus on "jobs" .. almost like provocation
Instead, think of machine services: fully-automated ones like "ads" or semi-automated like news stories, records requests, customer service replies, retail environment/shopping or other high-volume, low-profit trivial interactions.. These services have made billions in profit (ads) or removed billions in costs (employees) in the last twenty years exactly because they are done with minimal "jobs" specifically and by design.
Modern Capital markets have found the drug-combo they can't kick.. make money with machines with no "jobs" .. meanwhile, news outlets of all kinds continue in a death-spiral.
So combine the angst of media people themselves, the aggressive New Capital making machines that provide services while making few to no "jobs", and generally population anxiety over say .. catastrophic social conditions for example.. that is the real content from this chair.
maybe, instead of being real news about "jobs" it is instead, red-meat bait for the people who own capital who want to get into the "making machines that make money without making jobs" game.. Sort of like a modern version of really-attractive but utterly socially un-discussable in public.. starting wars for money, or building super people through breeding, to name some other obvious ones..
- tough 4y agoarent all wars started for money?
- Xunjin 4y agoWars starts from power struggles which often are money/economic related.
- astrange 4y agoNo, ideologues almost always sincerely believe their ideology. The Iraq War was not started for anyone's oil money. And even if military capitalists profited from a war, the other 99% of capitalists in the country would find it a distraction at best.
- tough 4y agoI'd reduce ideology to the fact that it's hard to make a man understand whatever is standing between him and his paycheck.
- mistrial9 4y agoyou have it backwards, money is needed for war. This is a very old thing.
- tough 4y agoAnd who provides this money? Does they do it for free? Where is this money funneled? To private hands more surely?