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If there's anything that can be reliably predicated to be true over multiple decades it's that capitalism will continually seek to reduce labour costs and autom
by cmrdporcupine 1y ago
If there's anything that can be reliably predicated to be true over multiple decades it's that capitalism will continually seek to reduce labour costs and automate everything.
You can bet that even if the specific forms attempted in this interval don't take hold, they will eventually.
You and I are too expensive, and have had too much power.
- andsoitis 1y ago> If there's anything that can be reliably predicated to be true over multiple decades it's that capitalism will continually seek to reduce labour costs and automate everything. what about improved life quality? what about an explosion of types of jobs? > You and I are too expensive, and have had too much power. do you think the average citizen (or the collective) have MORE power or LESS power than 100 years ago, than 200 years ago?
- miltonlost 1y agoWhat about productivity gains going to the top 1%? What about income inequality? Capitalism is not labor friendly in the slightest.
- cmrdporcupine 1y agoI never said anything about life quality, only that automation is an inevitability. What I said vs what you imagined I said are two different things.
- andsoitis 1y agoFair enough. Maybe I read too much between the lines. Apologies.
- queenkjuul 1y agoThan 100 years ago? Very much might be less, honestly, given modern police, media, and surveillance power and the decimation of labor unions since then.