• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How did we get to a place where awful jobs are the only ones available for people to take? How does holding back the use of technology to keep these awful jobs around help those who are worn out and tossed aside in the long run?

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      1 year ago

      There’s a difference between being idealistic and quixotic. With the introduction of machanization, the problem is not unemployment due to not enough jobs but there won’t be any job at all. The real question is how to accommodate these people when there won’t any job for them? The seemingly scary solution is this current real capitalist world is to leave them on the street. Unless you can provide the better solution to this real world problem, I suggest to keep your utopian world in your dream.

      Just head up: the future is scary for the next generation inline. Even the white collar job won’t be spared.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I know!

        Let them build more homes, big neighbourhoods of high-density living spaces. And give them for free to everyone.

        Then focus energy on growing and distributing enough food.

        While we’re at it, give everyone healthcare.

        Then watch those ‘unemployed’ people generate ‘value’ like we’ve never seen.

        Housed fed healthy people will have great ideas and all the time to implement them.

        • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          The kind of answer I’ve already expected. Keep dreaming, dear Don Quixote.

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            1 year ago

            It’s not like there is any other answer that’s going to amount to anything workable.

            You get this situation in 50 shades of bad, but never solve the real issue any other way.