Also, everyone keeps saying that if automation could be done it would be done, but why spend the capital to do it when you can depress wages for cheaper. If the wages go up a lot and quickly, there’s suddenly a change in the cost benefit ratio because it’s an action plan to resume quarterly growth that was disrupted by labor wage growth.
Because I'm 40 years old and I've been hearing that all the "unskilled jobs" are going to be automated away for the last 30 of them. The threat of automation used against workers is probably more useful than actually automating most of those unskilled jobs away.
Think about the McD's manager who's just standing in a McD's all by themself. The burgers are made by robot, the orders are taken by robot, the orders are delivered by robot. Why, its almost like the "manager" work can be automated away too.
Robotizing away white collar middle management jobs that were there to give hope to the petite bourgeois, just proletarianized them instead.
So, essentially, you're saying that automation won't happen because its not profitable? Because I'm pretty sure I made that point farther up the comment chain.
Because I'm 40 years old and I've been hearing that all the "unskilled jobs" are going to be automated away for the last 30 of them. The threat of automation used against workers is probably more useful than actually automating most of those unskilled jobs away.
Think about the McD's manager who's just standing in a McD's all by themself. The burgers are made by robot, the orders are taken by robot, the orders are delivered by robot. Why, its almost like the "manager" work can be automated away too.
Robotizing away white collar middle management jobs that were there to give hope to the petite bourgeois, just proletarianized them instead.
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So, essentially, you're saying that automation won't happen because its not profitable? Because I'm pretty sure I made that point farther up the comment chain.
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