Inventor: "Hey, you know how you toil most of your life away in meaningless, repetitive labor? Well good news, I've invented a machine that does it for you." Workers: "fuck. now we are going to be even poorer."
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capitalism is so irrational and contradictory that you can invent a machine that does people's work for them and they will be angry about it
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Capitalism is not about the work, but the profit. People are not mad about machines taking their work, are mad about machines taking their profit.
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their bosses have been taking their profit since the beginning.
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The fact that robots taking our jobs is somehow a bad thing is just
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They can keep our jobs but can we keep our wages?
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You can invent a product that lasts forever and you will go out of business pretty quickly.
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I’ve toyed with writing “Screwtape’s Guide to Capitalism” revisiting the demon from “The Screwtape Letters”. Principle #1 is: Remove something essential and natural, people’s lives, then make people pay/work to get back a poor substitute. Repeat. | Automation is another removal.
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Yes and no. Historically speaking, the result of automation is that new, better jobs are created. However, there's a theory that we're reaching a singularity where no new jobs will be created from automation.
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The point is that automation which removes the need for work should be awesome and allow us more time to do things that we enjoy, but because we systemically need to work to get money to live it just means that it gets harder to live as a worker
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