Has automation, globalization, and migration of individuals destroyed work? Should we go to a 4 day work week to prevent overproduction and recessions? Is the market mostly made up of jobs where some people are overworked and others are underworked? The job system is fairly new, a product of the industrial revolution. Prior to the industrial revolution a lot of jobs were ran on slave labor. Are we more free under our current job system? Will underworked people make good use of their free time or spend themselves into debt? Where I live they’re trying to get rid of property tax, and raise the sales tax to 20 percent, is this just a shell game with no gains? Will technology reduce the workweek and render people more impoverished with a higher cost of totality in terms of cost of living? Are we getting smarter as a society or are we buried in information and we’re less smart? With all of this technology and reliance on it are we more handicapped now, for example it takes a longer period of time for one to be considered an adult now and milestones are more further into the future? Maybe in the future we won’t need as much income or are we so money minded that this is a fallacy?
I think the elite are playing short-term profit oriented games that have little to do developing the infrastructure necessary for long-term survival. It’s just a reality that people pursue profit. That’s my explanation for at least why property tax is being abolished and at the same time as sales tax going up.
Roboticization is also going to seriously affect the way that we operate. It’s basically a new industrial revolution. That coupled with developments in AI will render the future quite strange from our perspective in my opinion.
It really comes down to whether or not we displace the elite before the infrastructure of roboticization is implemented.
What do you think man? Do you think we’re in a position in history to release the working classes from the oppression that they observe? Do you think the global South will ever be free from the constraints of hegemonic Western imperialism colonialism and slavery?
Personally, I think that the powers that be have operated in a way that is inhumane and not sustainable socially speaking. I believe that there’s a reckoning headed our way whether they like it or not.
I think the way people lobby for power and get there workers subsidized pay on the tax payers dime, not giving a livable wage is literally a crime against humanity. Checks and balances seems to be a sleep and the people aren’t getting the representation they need. No matter what party you choose they’re both pro business. Backed by big money. People say just find another job. Well you didn’t choose your parents, the economic times, or the jobs in your area, you were born into those conditions. So in the meantime you’re limited what job will choose you. So you become stuck in a cycle of poverty that is almost impossible to get ahead. If you do get ahead you become a nontraditional student and when competing in the job market they typically choose younger hires over inexperienced older hires. You’re life becomes a continual struggle. I grew up in poverty it’s hard as hell to get out of it. And when you do lose you’re college educated job if the market is bad you have to work a job beneath your skill set to get a head. So getting ahead is only momentary. Scarcity jobs for a scarcity business model.
Yeah I agree. Poverty is an injustice against humanity.
UBI is going to have to happen and soon if we stay with money based systems. AI is now good enough to render large swaths of the population unemployable. If your job uses a computer screen (like mine), you’re at high risk of being unemployed in the next two years.
Ai coupled with roboticization will render the majority of the individuals who are struggling to find work unemployable. Only the elite only the top 1%, are secure in the context of what’s going to occur. They know it by the way. They may be antisocial but they’re not stupid to that extent.
Some of them seem to be looking forward to the chaos they’ll cause. I think this cohort sees it as a necessary culling.
Yes and the global South would suffer the most because they lack representation and already bear the burden of modernity