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> Given the choice, plenty of people choose fewer hours for less money. Provided you are making enough in the first place. Many people are just living paycheq

> Given the choice, plenty of people choose fewer hours for less money. Provided you are making enough in the first place. Many people are just living paycheque-to-paycheque, even with good budgeting and no frivolous expenditures, and a lower-paying job for less stress just isn’t possible. In that case, more money is the answer. Plus, if wages had kept up with productivity, most people currently earning $50k/yr would really be making over $150k/yr for the exact same work and with all the exact same costs and expenses of life. Where did all this extra money go? Look up. Waaaay up, to the very top. Yup, current abysmally-low wages are the only reason why billionaires even exist.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> Provided you are making enough in the first place Fair enough. > most people currently earning $50k/yr would really be making over $150k/yr for the exact same work I’m sceptical. You’d automate a lot of jobs before that. > current abysmally-low wages are the only reason why billionaires even exist Trivially falsifiable, or tautological enough to be unfalsifiable. Villains are convenient. But fictional villains don’t animate against you. We can fix income inequality a great deal without declaring war on one class or another.
- cudgy 2y ago
  Maybe you are a billionaire or not paying attention to trends for the average person. Not sure, but Billionaire's are at war with the population, so why shouldn’t the population fight back? By the way, the population fighting back will do the billionaire’s a favor as the current distribution of assets is at unprecedented levels. The backlash is inevitable and let’s hope things turn around quickly before AI advances potentially rip off the cover.
- keybored 2y ago
  > I’m sceptical. You’d automate a lot of jobs before that. That could happen. All automation is made by labor. Then the capitalists who by definition own the means of production can fire people since they own the automation that labor created. And why wouldn’t they? It’s in their own rational self-interest. There’s the seed for class war right there.
- rekabis 2y ago
  > Trivially falsifiable, or tautological enough to be unfalsifiable. Villains are convenient. But fictional villains don’t animate against you. We can fix income inequality a great deal without declaring war on one class or another. Tell me you know nothing about economics, capitalism, or financial accounting without saying you know absolutely nothing about economics, capitalism, or financial accounting.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> Provided you are making enough in the first place Fair enough. > most people currently earning $50k/yr would really be making over $150k/yr for the exact same work I’m sceptical. You’d automate a lot of jobs before that. > current abysmally-low wages are the only reason why billionaires even exist Trivially falsifiable, or tautological enough to be unfalsifiable. Villains are convenient. But fictional villains don’t animate against you. We can fix income inequality a great deal without declaring war on one class or another.

cudgy 2y ago
Maybe you are a billionaire or not paying attention to trends for the average person. Not sure, but Billionaire's are at war with the population, so why shouldn’t the population fight back? By the way, the population fighting back will do the billionaire’s a favor as the current distribution of assets is at unprecedented levels. The backlash is inevitable and let’s hope things turn around quickly before AI advances potentially rip off the cover.
keybored 2y ago
> I’m sceptical. You’d automate a lot of jobs before that. That could happen. All automation is made by labor. Then the capitalists who by definition own the means of production can fire people since they own the automation that labor created. And why wouldn’t they? It’s in their own rational self-interest. There’s the seed for class war right there.
rekabis 2y ago
> Trivially falsifiable, or tautological enough to be unfalsifiable. Villains are convenient. But fictional villains don’t animate against you. We can fix income inequality a great deal without declaring war on one class or another. Tell me you know nothing about economics, capitalism, or financial accounting without saying you know absolutely nothing about economics, capitalism, or financial accounting.