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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
A better solution in my mind would be for the government to make mandated severance pay for layoffs extremely penalizing for employers to deter them from replacing workers with machines. But the government isn't really taken this issue seriously yet, only those "evil" unions are.
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Think about this for a minute.
You are saying that we should incentivize farmers to use manual labour instead of tractors. We should use ledger books instead of spread sheets. A horse and buggy instead of a car. A series of ropes and pullers instead of cranes. Manual operator intervention instead of control systems. No more assembly lines. All hand tools. No CNC machines.
What you are asking to do directly is to eliminate economic expansion due to efficiency. There are only two ways to grow the economy. More people or more efficiency. You want to hamstring one of them.
In an ideal world all labour is replaced with machines and scarcity is eliminated. Actively preventing that from happening as a solution makes you a Luddite, a literal Luddite advocating the smashing of machines.
Unions "job security" concept is probably their worst feature. That Calgary only automated garbage pickup in the last 5 years is ridiculous when the tech was around for 30 and resulted in a safer and lower cost service.
Freeing humans from labour whether through agriculture or science has led to us to create society. 6000 years ago I don't think anyone was saying if this farming thing takes off what will the hunters and gatherers do.
I'm interested and will respond to the rest of your post but that last line jumped out at me as awful.