• Mudman@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Aa yeah that beautiful job that fulfills my deepest calling of my immortal soul, Please stop the robots taking this blessing away from me!!

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      1 day ago

      You think if they lose their job that there’s just a better job waiting for them? There’s a reason they took those jobs.

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        13 hours ago

        Nothing waits for nobody. What do you think, if the robot takes his factory work he’ll just curl up in the corner and die?

        Maybe there are millions of other things to do. Not just as a factory worker. People underestimate their own creative power under the pressure of the systems we live in. So … I say it’s good to lose a job now and then, one might have a moment to evaluate their own life and find something that’s more deeply aligned with their core values.

        So let the automation take ‘our’ jobs. It’s great! We’ll maybe start doing something more interesting for ourselves.

        On the other hand, if you really feel like being a little bot in the assembly line is ‘your own job’ then I wish you luck with that too. Hope you get better at it than any automaton ever will, dude.

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          13 hours ago

          I don’t think it’s that simple. Entire businesses have to be started and upscaled for this to happen. If enough jobs vanish quickly enough, they don’t just reappear. The economy can’t react instantly to things like this, it takes years. And if it’s happening in all industries simultaneously it may not happen at all.

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            12 hours ago

            Well I think we’re looking at it from different perspectives.

            I don’t care about vanishing of the jobs on a mass scale. And the economy not being capable of reacting to it.

            I say that human creativity has practically no limits and the drive for the betterment of one’s life will always find a way. And probably in a more fulfilling way than just being a nod in the assembly line of corporate products that they themselves can’t even afford with the coins they are making there.

            So maybe it is better that automation takes over such jobs so people find something else to do. And they will. As always …

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              12 hours ago

              It seems you’ve never heard of unemployment. It’s a real thing and in many economies it can be above 10%

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                    11 hours ago

                    Thanks. But tbf, I wasn’t forced into it one way or another. It’s my choice to live outdoors, carry water and use a small solar system for phone and small gadgets. I could get a job tomorrow and rent a place next month. But this is what I prefer at the moment and for any lack in my life, that is reasonable, I blame myself because there’s many things I could do to make my life better that cost nothing.

                    I imagine, if you are in Bombay and have 3 children, that’s a completely different set of cards, but still there are so many things you can change. In most cases …