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Are the 4 million truck/taxi drivers in the US white collar? Janitors? Fast food workers? Automation is relentless and not everyone can be a plumber. Zoom out.
by jjoonathan 3y ago
Are the 4 million truck/taxi drivers in the US white collar? Janitors? Fast food workers? Automation is relentless and not everyone can be a plumber.
Zoom out. It's a big problem that most people derive their social power from labor while the demand for labor is clearly on a long term downward trend. Even if progress slows way down, even if the next wave of progress only dispossesses people who you hate and feel comfortable farming for schadenfreude, we will have to deal with this eventually. Defaulting means our society will look like (insert cyberpunk nightmare world here).
- oytis 3y agoI am not hating anyone, being a white collar worker myself. My point is that a whole lot of people already live like that, without having much power from their labour, and the sky is not falling. More people might be joining them, and the illusion of meritocracy might be harder to maintain in the future, but extreme poverty, hunger etc. is something we will likely be able to avoid