I think before anything, this is an example of a failure of the online left that came out of the Bernie campaign. You have a huge group of normies who are quickly approaching class conscious under their own terms and instead of adapting to this sentiment and winning over the workers on there, you honest to god have people who don't want a flood of new users onto this site. There are others who tried to interject and good on them, but the sentiment that you shouldn't go where the workers are is why I log onto this website every 3 months on a throwaway.
To answer your question
to justify moving to automating low level treat services
If they could, they would. The automation isn't there yet, won't be soon, and to adapt without having a class of people you have to openly oppress during exponentially more intense decline and withdrawal of the state, you'd need a UBI and capital can't get it's shit together enough for basic spending on roads.
This is also in the face of massive chip shortages and a shipping crisis that continues to build on itself. Even if the tech was there to have the sort of automation they threaten, and the capital was there to invest, there just aren't enough parts floating around. FF14 couldn't get a new server for one of the most profitable game of all time. I think I'll call Burger King's bluff on this.
If there is a near term massive culling of workers, they might blame it on automation or labor agitation but it'll absolutely be the result of the fed raising interest rates and dead capital / zombie firms finally being absorbed by big porky. Fun fact: half of those firms are in producing real, physical products which I'm sure will only help the rollout of the robots.
I've been suggesting HexBear to people in every Reddit IPO freakout thread on r/antiwork and I've been agitating over in the stock subreddits since the GME saga started. It's not fun, but it feels slightly more productive than my usual shitposting.
They don't need to make justifications for automating work, they're just going to do it. It was happening long before covid and the anti-work sentiment came around, and nobody cared about explaining why, they just assumed it was an inevitability.
As far as these articles go, I would say that it's more a case of brainwashed people genuine trying to come up with a reason for why this stuff is happening other than the obvious anti-capitalist conclusion. Not so much a deliberate hit piece to help explain companies' decisions to automate, but rather a liberal brainwormed attempt to rationalize it after the fact.
I think before anything, this is an example of a failure of the online left that came out of the Bernie campaign. You have a huge group of normies who are quickly approaching class conscious under their own terms and instead of adapting to this sentiment and winning over the workers on there, you honest to god have people who don't want a flood of new users onto this site. There are others who tried to interject and good on them, but the sentiment that you shouldn't go where the workers are is why I log onto this website every 3 months on a throwaway.
To answer your question
If they could, they would. The automation isn't there yet, won't be soon, and to adapt without having a class of people you have to openly oppress during exponentially more intense decline and withdrawal of the state, you'd need a UBI and capital can't get it's shit together enough for basic spending on roads.
This is also in the face of massive chip shortages and a shipping crisis that continues to build on itself. Even if the tech was there to have the sort of automation they threaten, and the capital was there to invest, there just aren't enough parts floating around. FF14 couldn't get a new server for one of the most profitable game of all time. I think I'll call Burger King's bluff on this.
If there is a near term massive culling of workers, they might blame it on automation or labor agitation but it'll absolutely be the result of the fed raising interest rates and dead capital / zombie firms finally being absorbed by big porky. Fun fact: half of those firms are in producing real, physical products which I'm sure will only help the rollout of the robots.
I've been suggesting HexBear to people in every Reddit IPO freakout thread on r/antiwork and I've been agitating over in the stock subreddits since the GME saga started. It's not fun, but it feels slightly more productive than my usual shitposting.
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They don't need to make justifications for automating work, they're just going to do it. It was happening long before covid and the anti-work sentiment came around, and nobody cared about explaining why, they just assumed it was an inevitability.
As far as these articles go, I would say that it's more a case of brainwashed people genuine trying to come up with a reason for why this stuff is happening other than the obvious anti-capitalist conclusion. Not so much a deliberate hit piece to help explain companies' decisions to automate, but rather a liberal brainwormed attempt to rationalize it after the fact.
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