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If there's anything that can be reliably predicated to be true over multiple decades it's that capitalism will continually seek to reduce labour costs and automate everything.

You can bet that even if the specific forms attempted in this interval don't take hold, they will eventually.

You and I are too expensive, and have had too much power.



> If there's anything that can be reliably predicated to be true over multiple decades it's that capitalism will continually seek to reduce labour costs and automate everything.

what about improved life quality? what about an explosion of types of jobs?

> You and I are too expensive, and have had too much power.

do you think the average citizen (or the collective) have MORE power or LESS power than 100 years ago, than 200 years ago?


Than 100 years ago? Very much might be less, honestly, given modern police, media, and surveillance power and the decimation of labor unions since then.


What about productivity gains going to the top 1%? What about income inequality? Capitalism is not labor friendly in the slightest.


I never said anything about life quality, only that automation is an inevitability.

What I said vs what you imagined I said are two different things.


Fair enough. Maybe I read too much between the lines. Apologies.




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