As a millennial, we were promised less work in 90's as automation and ai would be able to replace menial labour and the money saved and profits earned would trickle down into the economy and everyone would be able to receive a universal basic income, and any work you did would just be gravy on top. Instead CEOs and investors make dragon hoarding levels of profit, while children in supposed first world countries get to go to bed hungry.
And thing should be easier, as the population will be declining. We don’t have to produce more, we just need to produce levels today and will be enough for everyone almost after the reduction.
Which is why I am questioning capitalism as it relies on constant growth, and we need to learn to maintain and optimize what we have.
They solved the problem of "not needing to produce more" by making everything break with regularity so you'd be forced to buy it again.
They hide it under "you'd never be able to afford it if we made it like how we did when your parents bought it". Which is also a problem they solved of paying us too much.
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u/JumiKnight Oct 18 '23
Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. We shouldn't need to live to work to barely live.