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The idea that you need to earn a living implies you dont deserve to live. We produce vastly more than we consume. The idea that people need jobs or to work is laughable, we just need to eat the rich.
The idea that you need to earn a living implies you dont deserve to live.
Meanwhile the rich are thinking "The idea that you need to earn a living implies you do deserve to live," and drawing quite a different conclusion.
I just want AI suicide booths! That’s the future we deserve.
We need a citizens income fast. Thing is the us is behind without even healthcare and things like public education are always on the chopping block. Rather than tarifs how about universal snap and rather than not allowing certain foods you only allow it for nationally produced food.
“What are they gonna do when people have no jobs?”
Simple. Stride towards the guillotine, cheered on by millions of unemployed proles who ain’t taking it no more
I would cheer on the guillotine much more than the average person, but let's be honest about what material conditions are required.
The French poor were paying 60% of their income on bread. That was not enough for guillotines. Only after a poor harvest, and added mismanagement, the prices rose to 80% of their income- only then did heads start to roll.
There were no guillotines in the great depression (probably in large part thanks to The New Deal). So for Americans to deploy a guillotine, it would require an economic collapse worse than the great depression.
Frankly, many of us will starve before Musk's head is in a basket.
Nah, people are much more entitled now.
Mass unemployment will do it.
I feel like technology tips the scale against a popular uprising pretty hard. You have sophisticated mass surveillance systems to track everyone, fully or semi automated drones and robots to deter or kill us. Automated oppression has already been deployed around the world successfully, and these same companies are behind much of it. There's no reason to think the default here is that the people win such a conflict and secure a right to live.
"They" don't give a fuck if we all starve, so long as their stock goes up half a point.
they will flee to us to eu to grift from them.
Celebrate?
'We automated everything and that's bad somehow' is a stupid problem to have.
It's "bad somehow" because people require money to live.
Automating everything will lead to a glorious utopia for maybe 10% of people and everyone else will be left to die in abject poverty.
I agree it is a very stupid problem to have. It's also a very real problem that we do have, right now, unless we do some major restructuring of our biggest world economies.
I mean, isn’t that the current setup globally anyway?
If you're starving it won't be easy to celebrate. Yes, automation should be a good thing. But under capitalism it won't be.
If things go the way they should and the entire world population gets to benefit from this, then you'd be right.
The problem right now is that there is literally zero indication that it will go that direction, and actually a lot of evidence that it specifically will go the opposite way, where the billionaires hoard all of the benefits and the rest just get to suffer and starve