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Who will need your labour if everyone else is unemployed?
by lbreakjai 9mo ago
Who will need your labour if everyone else is unemployed?
- direwolf20 9mo agoLandlords, probably. The only people you have to keep paying even if they don't do anything and nobody is employed.
- fcantournet 9mo agolandlords need people to pay the rent. Or to spell it out more precisely : the construction/housing industry off of which land lords extract value needs external value creation to still exist AND give revenue to spend to a large population. "Houses are for people to live in" may be a communist slogan right now, but it's also very basic macro-economic reality.
- direwolf20 9mo agoWhen someone is living in the house, the landlord can get the rent. Either voluntarily, or by force through the courts. Even if nobody is employed.
- lbreakjai 9mo agoIf nobody is employed, then nobody has any money to live in a house, and the landlord doesn't get any rent.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThe landlord then has the right to make someone homeless, for no benefit to anybody, just out of spite that he isn't getting rent.
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- lbreakjai 9mo agoSure. But he still doesn't have the money to buy the labour the OP was wanting to sell. Which was the point of the argument: If you think AI will destroy most white collar jobs, learning a trade won't help.