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I am very concerned about the future of jobs and workers. Our capitalistic society is salivating at the idea of cheapening the cost of production by eliminatin
by asciimov 4y ago
I am very concerned about the future of jobs and workers.
Our capitalistic society is salivating at the idea of cheapening the cost of production by eliminating all the creative and generative work that workers make. The capitalist class doesn't care who gets hurt or what gets destroyed as long as they make more money.
Unfortunately the people that are hurt the most are the middle and working class folks who use their skills to create things, make money, and immediately spend it. These are the folks that keep the whole system running by using their money to buy more goods.
> I've never seen so many smart people so bearish about the future. The science fiction dreams and utopias we've celebrated since our childhoods might actually be feasible now, and yet so many are wearing frowns.
As it stands we aren't heading towards utopia, we are running head first to a bleak dystopia; where critical thought and creativity is authorized only to the algorithms and probability machines of the wealthy and powerful. While the rest of us are relegated to cheap, often dangerous, labor.
If we had support systems: Universal healthcare, wages, education, etc. I might be more supportive, but we don't because capitalism.