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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Oh give me a break GGG. This idea that nobody will need to work in order to get the things they need and we will force the companies profiting from automation to pay for everything comes off as some sort of communist fantasy.
Well you’re entitled to your opinion but I think most people vote based on what they (right or wrongfully) think will help their lives. Right now having a good job helps improve your life. Maybe that will change if your communist utopia theory ever materializes but until then jobs are gonna matter to people
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We already allow people not to work and tax companies who profit to fund it. We have decided that once you reach 65 that taxation of the surplus value produced by businesses (and personal taxes individuals pay also come from this value) will be taxed to support people not to work.
So this is just a matter of degree. Getting rid of human labour and jobs to accomplish the same task is positive. It’s allowed for science and art to develop. To be opposed to something on the basis it does a job more efficiently is opposing the wrong thing.
Oppose it because it moves where the surplus is used from the local enconomy to the global one.
This is important because the policy solutions to solve the problem require the problem to be stated correctly. The problem isn’t the loss of a job due to efficiency or automation.