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There's other options. For example, the automation could open up other job opportunities. And it could get rid of the job completely. This is a problem we've fa

There's other options. For example, the automation could open up other job opportunities. And it could get rid of the job completely. This is a problem we've faced for hundreds of years (if not longer). > What do we, as a society, do if we only need 20% of the labor pool to perform all the jobs? We wind up having other things for them to do, the exact same as we always have, when we've faced this exact problem in the past.

beaglessss 2y ago
The concern here seems to be longshoreman is one of the highest paid blue collar jobs; there is close to zero percent chance the middle age and older guys get anything like this again. It's quite dissimilar to something like a unskilled farmhand getting fired and then moving slightly up to maintaining farm implements or something. Sucks for them, but they can't complain when they were happy to charge the poor and lesser working class through the nose to unload their goods. They can't both have their capitalism and eat it.