In an economy where a vast majority of labor is automated, capitalism inevitably leaves the vast majority of people "useless" while transferring all the world's wealth to the handful of owners left. This is the libertarian dream.
Imagine having your community devastated by unemployment caused by increased automation at your employer, and thinking "automation is bad", rather than "capitalism is bad."
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Aren't they both bad?
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automation can only be considered bad because of capitalism. under a communist system, jobs aren't a necessity for personal survival, they're things which are done to sustain the community, so more automation just means less boring work to do.
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Imagine owning a company or having a job that pays you enough to buy your own house and thinking "Communism is great, the State should own everything."
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Imagine not earning nearly enough to earn your own house because of market failure. Which is increasingly the case for huge numbers in the UK.
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It’s only natural to blame the concrete immediate cause staring you in the face rather than the abstract social strucure whose omnipresence creates an illusion of transparency. Use a bit more imagination to sympathize with the average worker.
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They don't know any better because instead of being taught to think critically capitalist forces teach people to blame strawmen and red herrings usually by perpetuating racism and xenophobia
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No machine ever took a human being's job. But plenty of capitalists have given human jobs to machines.
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