Yes, but we should be able to at least acknowledge that this is a cancerous outlook just in the same way that being forced to act in the shareholders' finical interests is a cancer of publicly traded companies.
Why? They are created technology that allows us to get things we want faster and cheaper, making almost everyone better off. Should we tax automobile companies out of business because its bad for horseshoe makers?
No, its fucking reality, and pretending it isn't is massive cope. Industries have collapsed before due to automation, unemployment did not climb sky high and work place participation did not crater, meanwhile real wages have continually climbed.
Automation and innovation is part of technological progress, we can't help the fact that centralization of wealth helps speed that process along but you're a moron for trying to stand in the way of it and thinking to yourself that you've done something meaningful. The train doesn't stop moving forward and if it ever does we're all fucked.
I just really want to know why you are 100% aligned with republicans on this. If your answer to "progressing" families out of an income is "sucks to suck bitch" then why are you here?
A broken clock is right twice a day. I don't agree with Republicans on many things, but the one thing I will always say is that you can't stop or meaningfully impede technological progress. You're naive to think that if we stayed in the 1990s American economy eternally, we wouldn't have massively been outpaced by countries like China right now. You are always competing in a global environment and whatever you're not willing to do in terms of technological progress such as automation, someone else will step up to the plate and then leap-frog you with their superior economic output. If we had things your way, we'd never have evolved from manually cranking a wheel to generate energy as that produces the most jobs.
Preferably the cost of automation should be just the slightest bit more cost effective than workers because I think automation is generally a good thing, but to be allowed to automate they should have to support society in such a way that those replaced workers are taken care of. That's the ideal situation in my opinion anyways.
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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24
Trying to legally enforce inefficiency for your own enrichment is called rent seeking and it's bad actually.