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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
In a fantasy world where money doesn’t matter, sure, maybe.
If jobs aren’t a good thing why are politicians of all stripes constantly bragging/complaining about job numbers?
And why are we always being told to give tax breaks to the people at the top so that they can create jobs?
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We’ve gone round this before when discussing automation. But it isn’t a fantasy world. It’s the world we currently live in. The labour required to meet our basic needs is far lower than 125 years ago.
But quite simply the surplus value created from the more efficient distribution of goods is being given to the owners of the companies and the customers rather than to the person whose job was displaced.
So the issue is that the the government fails to capture the value from automation and efficiency and instead of reducing labour done we spend on luxurys.
As to what politicians do to earn votes? I don’t think that is a metric we should use for anything.