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happyaccident

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23. It's not a paradise, it's harder work than what we have now, requires more responsibility to society

Thu Jun 27, 2019, 04:41 PM

Jun 2019

It's what we do with the surplus (produced by workers, taken by capitalists) and what kind of world we want to live in. Soon most of us will be useless, replaced by automation. Then what? It's been happening among people I know for decades, the replacement of living wage jobs with this fucking "gig" economy. We need to work in order to live. All automation is not good, but our system doesn't even acknowledge anything beyond short-term profits. And yes, we will be hiring telephone operators in my Socialist Paradise because those jobs are good for the disabled and the elderly. And we would get better service talking to a real person. I would like to live in a world where the vast majority of people could have priority over a few rich families. That's all. I don't care what it's called.

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Is the end result of our capitalist system slavery or obsolescence?as in robots replacing us? [View all] happyaccident Jun 2019 OP

"In the long run we are all dead. " keynes rampartc Jun 2019 #1

"Crony capitalism" watoos Jun 2019 #3

gangster capitalism, monopolistic capitalism rampartc Jun 2019 #9

This is why I support Andrew Yang in this campaign for 2020 Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #2

Its going to get worse, with capitalism there is no "just society" happyaccident Jun 2019 #4

What makes it worse watoos Jun 2019 #7

All capitalism is crony capitalism because it isn't an economic system happyaccident Jun 2019 #18

+1 leftstreet Jun 2019 #29

Yet a mix of democracy and capitalism is working in Scandinavia, appalachiablue Jun 2019 #30

What impact would Universal Basic Income have on the economy? Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #10

I would worry about losing it happyaccident Jun 2019 #15

Capitalism certainly results in monopolies. watoos Jun 2019 #5

Workers are being replaced by technology Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #11

Well, it won't go on for too many more decades misanthrope Jun 2019 #19

I think technologogical innovation will be the last thing to go happyaccident Jun 2019 #22

You need infrastructure and stable weather misanthrope Jun 2019 #24

Perhaps Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #31

Perhaps we will misanthrope Jun 2019 #32

Technology has always displaced workers. trev Jun 2019 #14

The difference now is robots and AI are taking the jobs happyaccident Jun 2019 #16

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #27

The consumer doesn't realize how much power they have Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #6

Consumers eat their own, watoos Jun 2019 #8

You're right Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #13

Thomas Jefferson warned that if we had a government run by the rich sop Jun 2019 #12

Fuck Thomas Jefferson, he absolutely believed in government by the rich. happyaccident Jun 2019 #17

Would we still be hiring telephone operators in a Socialist paradise? brooklynite Jun 2019 #20

It's not a paradise, it's harder work than what we have now, requires more responsibility to society happyaccident Jun 2019 #23

Neither, it's wage slavery. Initech Jun 2019 #21

We never got rid of slavery. SlogginThroughIt Jun 2019 #25

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #28

Now as in the past. One solution. democratisphere Jun 2019 #26