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Completely agree with the content. Side note on that: > Customer service is one category where I expect a lot of these jobs, honestly, to just go away. For lo

Completely agree with the content. Side note on that: > Customer service is one category where I expect a lot of these jobs, honestly, to just go away. For long I have, and in normal conditions, I would have said hurray. Humanity invented a technology that automated some of its bothersome tasks, one thing less to do, we're collectively all for the better, freed to enjoy life or spend our time in a more productive way, whichever suits best. But in this world, the fruit of this automation is always reaped by the same people, and they're not those whose job was automated. The latter are now in a shity situation, the former are now marginally richer and won't share with anyone else.

itslennysfault 3y ago
Yeah, lots of people think rich capitalists like exploiting people for their labor to enrich themselves, but the truth is they hate it. It's is an unfortunate necessity. If they can replace bothersome employees with a system that does the job "well enough" they'll do it over night and won't lose a wink of sleep over those who were displaced.
- staticman2 3y ago
  >>Yeah, lots of people think rich capitalists like exploiting people for their labor to enrich themselves, but the truth is they hate it. The people who genuinely hate exploiting people for labor to enrich themselves do not become rich capitalists, in the same sense that people who genuinely hate heights do not become airplane pilots, and people who genuinely hate public speaking do not become theater actors.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > and won't lose a wink of sleep over those who were displaced. So then they don't hate it after all.
- charles_f 3y ago
  Note that I didn't talk about the motivation, but just observed that this is how the system works. > but the truth is they hate it They hate having to rely on other people, or the exploitation part? Because if your thesis is the latter, go explain union busting, benefits stripping, or pretty much the entire state of the social system in the US.

itslennysfault 3y ago

Yeah, lots of people think rich capitalists like exploiting people for their labor to enrich themselves, but the truth is they hate it. It's is an unfortunate necessity. If they can replace bothersome employees with a system that does the job "well enough" they'll do it over night and won't lose a wink of sleep over those who were displaced.

staticman2 3y ago
>>Yeah, lots of people think rich capitalists like exploiting people for their labor to enrich themselves, but the truth is they hate it. The people who genuinely hate exploiting people for labor to enrich themselves do not become rich capitalists, in the same sense that people who genuinely hate heights do not become airplane pilots, and people who genuinely hate public speaking do not become theater actors.
JohnFen 3y ago
> and won't lose a wink of sleep over those who were displaced. So then they don't hate it after all.
charles_f 3y ago
Note that I didn't talk about the motivation, but just observed that this is how the system works. > but the truth is they hate it They hate having to rely on other people, or the exploitation part? Because if your thesis is the latter, go explain union busting, benefits stripping, or pretty much the entire state of the social system in the US.