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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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hope your job never gets offshored
you: "Yeah I lost my job, but hey, now someone in India gets to earn a living...can you help me prop up my cardboard box to keep the rain out? thanks."
Jobs are not a finite resource. If there is a pool of people who want to work, someone will find stuff to pay them to do.
I seriously would love for my entire current set of job responsibilities to be automated. There are a couple of value-adding full-time jobs' worth of work I could be doing for my employer that are just being left on the table right now.
Well this is just absolutely untrue. If there's a pool of people who want to work then someone will just give them a job? what kind of magical unicorn world are you living in? So in your world unemployment rates just...don't exist or are a fabrication? those people are just lazy?
If you got fired from your job and you couldn't find another one, in your head, whose fault is that? yours? the mythical job provider who hasn't blessed you with another?
If I ran a business and was provided the option of hiring you or someone in another country for peanuts, I'd tell you to kick grass.
But you want to work I hear you say! someone HAS to pay me to do something! nope, I'm not going to pay you, I'm going to pay this kid in India or his brother that just got off the plane half of what I would have to pay you.
Welcome to the real world.
it is not the way the world has to work just because it's the way the world currently works