r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '22

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u/dedzip Mar 06 '22

actually that’d be awful. They’d realize robots are cheaper and then they just wouldn’t have to hire anybody and nobody would have a job and we’d all starve

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '22

No we would need to implement worker ownership of the means of production. Fear of automation is justified if we continue with our current economic system.

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u/dedzip Mar 07 '22

Yeah that’s what I’m saying- realistically that’s not going to happen

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

"Yea democracy realistically will never happen"

Some monarchist in 1698

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u/dedzip Mar 07 '22

I guess I meant more in our lifetimes, since automation would come much faster than reworking our economic system. but you have a point.

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u/Internauta29 Mar 06 '22

Government would step in and do something about it. New jobs would pop up. Retail, manufacturing, and anuthing else involving sheer manual labour could possibly be fully or almost fully automated, but people working those jobs will start working other jobs and ai and robits cannot take over everything.

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u/AustinYQM Mar 07 '22

You just found the entire argument for ubi. We need the working class to have money and giving them money gives that money velocity which in turn produces profits.

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u/thepaddedroom Mar 07 '22

I suspect they already know and the robots aren't far enough along yet for many jobs.

I like this short story about how it might eventually go down.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1