@snood,
snood wrote:
maporsche wrote:
I love the idea of replacing human workers with machine ones, long term.
Think if we could get 100x the production with 10% as many workers. We’d end hunger and basic needs would be met for almost nothing.
Wouldn't someone find a way to make sure that the benefit of such an increase in productivity only accrued to the rich? We'd still be in the same capitalistic, dog eat dog country where companies who could easily afford to pay a living wage refuse to do so, in order to insure the continued exponential growth of the income of the 1%.
I don’t know snood. The cost of just about every consumer good has reduced over time with improvements. The great benefit of the capitalistic society is that if something can be made Cheaper by another company then business will go to that company. That’s assuming that we keep laws against price fixing in place (and actually elect a government that will enforce those laws).
Honestly though, if I could live like I do now, at 10% the cost, I wouldn’t much care how rich the 1% got. I’d take my 36 extra hours every week and do something I enjoy doing. I’d be a much better human being and not a better employee. That’s more important to me.
Think of what it would be like if the $10 minimum wage had the buying power of $100. You could have one-income households again. You could work half the year and not the other half. Couple this with some sort of universal healthcare sky is pretty blue.
I live for the day where work isn’t the most important thing in people’s lives. Where leisure is valued and encouraged. Where the success of a man or woman isn’t based off of their possessions but on their contribution to society and their compassion to others.
