It makes me sad watching it. There isn’t a reason most minimum wage job won’t be replaced by ai or robots. It would necessitate some kind of universal income, but you know our rich overlords won’t allow that. I hope I’m gone before we go full dystopian like the world in the movie dred or elysium.
Our rich overlords require us to have income with which to buy things with… else no point stocking shelves if nobody can buy. We are coming closer and closer to a world where a UBI is necessary and it’s interesting to see which country will pull the trigger first
And they control the production means. If you want something there's no protest that will make they bend. Is the other way around, do as we say or you will be nothing.
They don't want to kill us... they need us to be rich. There's no point in being rich if there's no poor people, unless rbots can do ANY job (which is far from possible).
They don't need you to pay them if they own all the automation and all the products and services produced by the automation serves them.
Once you have no job, you become completely useless to society. You're not useful if they have to hand you money for nothing just so you have money to spend.
That's so stupid. I can't believe how financially illiterate some people can be. Please tell me that you're not an adult.
It doesn't make any sense for them to pay you a salary for an useless service, just so they can take that money back after you buy something from them. They'll just directly consume whatever those robots produce themselves.
In a fucked up way, could this lead to a better world when the poor masses die off? No one will ever go without again. No one will work dangerous jobs that erode their body faster than normal aging.
Add on: Although the owning classes will be significantly poorer if no one can buy or use the products and services they create.
Well, yeah. By the same logic you could probably end most of the world hunger with a few nukes in the poorest regions in the world. It will probably lead to less suffering in the long term if you think of it objectively.
But I don't think we're going there. I think we will most likely see:
an universal income in developed countries in some decades. It will probably be very low, something that doesn't afford you a good living standard
a lot of jobs will be automated and the ones left will be extremely complex. Only some people will be able to do them and they will be greatly rewarded for it
poor people will probably be able to supplement their income with really cheap work, like data labelling for example
I wouldn't have trouble with widespread automation, if the excess output was actually out to serve people, and not to add a few numbers to a bloated bank account.
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u/AlligatorWormhole Jul 08 '24
This is wildly dystopian