• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    It would be a shame if a new Luddite movement came and broke the machines putting humans out of work they want to do.

    Or give us a universal basic income and let humans do what they want to do to make themselves happy while the machines do all the work.

    • vivadanang@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Makes a fascinating short story:

      Jimmy thought his job at the data center was easy, clock in, watch the cameras, do the rounds, clock out. Good pay, low effort…

      then 10,000 people showed up with hammers and crow bars. Jimmy was about to have a very bad day.

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        11 months ago

        What value is a universal basic income to the shareholders? That is the question to ask in this capitalist hellscape.

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          11 months ago

          I’d say that sometimes it may even be beneficial to shareholders because they will not have to deal with people in the company that are there only to up the workspace numbers. You know, those job positions that only exist because of how wrecked the system is now