This is a harbinger for a world where skilled workers can be replaced by amoral, skilled automatons.This isn't analogous to the cotton gin.
Our world is getting turned upside down and the ownership class will be comfortable while domestic decay creeps over the rest of the country.
It's a class war, and you're not Warren Buffet.
Tax the rich, redistribute the wealth.
This isn’t any different than stable boys demanding auto sales be banned. Get a different job. Progress has replaced stupid and/or repetitive work forever.
The scale of the FUD is large, but so far the impact has been very minor.
I’m 100% for automation of actual coding. I don’t see it happening any time soon though
In this hellscape of "automated recuiting", ghost jobs, degree requirements (of which school is also a 6 figure investment), and a minimum wage far below a miniumum wage? Yeah, no. Easier to fight. I can at least get some damage done even if losing is inevitable. I won't just sit quietly and accept what corporations want.
Luddites will be left in the dustbin of history where they belong. We don't mourn after the dead horse-back carriage and telegraph unions, and we shouldn't mourn for a dead longshoreman union.
And?
Most lottery winners end up broke, and in a worse place than where they started. How would this be any different? Behaviors have to change. Throwing money at people won’t change their behaviors. They also won’t be very careful with how they spend/save free money.
Didn’t we see this play out during the pandemic stimulus? People got free money and spent it immediately, and then some. Stock prices went up for these companies with the healthy sales, making the rich richer, and the people went into more debt, because they spent more than they got. I’m sure there are exceptions, but that seemed to be the overall trend.
It seems the incentives need to change for companies, where the stock price or profit isn’t the only bottom line they need to care about. Where pulling the levers of increased wages or lower prices, at the expense of raw profits, help this new bottom line.
Leaving everyone without money is ultimately bad for business, because there is no one to sell to. The credit card industry is the only reason companies have gotten away with it so far, but I have to image that house will eventually collapse under its own weight.
Sorry but you've been had. This is anti poor propaganda and is 100% false. The overwhelming majority of lottery winners at much better off 10 years after winning.
Most people don't go on a crazy endless bender when money comes to them but cause most people are normal.