Reminds me of the comment thread on an article yesterday about whether automation poses a threat to the work force. In theory, the goal is to reach such peak efficiency through automated systems that the amount of work each person needs to perform to afford basic necessities and goods would drop to an all-time low. In reality... I'm somehow doubtful things will go that way.
ZenMonkey47 on October 26th, 2019 at 13:45 UTC »
More like:
Capital: Good news! With technology we can produce twice as much with half the work!
Workers: Cool! So we only have to work half the hours?
Capital: Ha ha no. It means we only need half of you.
Workers: How... how is that good news?
Capital: It's good news for me.
CaptainLysdexia on October 26th, 2019 at 13:53 UTC »
Reminds me of the comment thread on an article yesterday about whether automation poses a threat to the work force. In theory, the goal is to reach such peak efficiency through automated systems that the amount of work each person needs to perform to afford basic necessities and goods would drop to an all-time low. In reality... I'm somehow doubtful things will go that way.
PipsSnareDrum00 on October 26th, 2019 at 16:18 UTC »
They rolled back the pensions to ensure they could pay out bonuses to the executives that bankrupted the company.