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Yeah, this basically continually happens. Look at history, there’s so many jobs that have been automated yet we still have 95%+ employment in most countries an
by dijit 1y ago
Yeah, this basically continually happens.
Look at history, there’s so many jobs that have been automated yet we still have 95%+ employment in most countries and effectively “double” the workforce as we’re pushing dual-income households as a standard.
I’m not sure how our obscenely wealthy overlords think things will play out when we’re all wage-slaves barely able to scrape by. It hasn’t worked out for any society historically.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoI think that misses the nuance of what happens as this shakes out. We have ghost towns all over the west and cities with a fraction of their historic population in the middle of the country. Maybe employment is 95% in whatever county that ghost town is in, but that is only because people have left for other jobs and not stuck around to be destitute. And this was made possible thanks to there being other jobs available someplace else. Now, what happens if there are no jobs available someplace else? Would the sort of leadership we have in power these days consider a New Deal esque plan for mass public work projects and employment opportunities when the private sector has none available? Or would they see it as an opportunity to bring back a sort of feudalism or plantation economy where people aren’t really compensated at all and allowed to starve if not immediately economically useful?