Robots Are Taking All The Jobs!

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[–]wecandobetter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Cool and then there was food to process and cook, clothes to sew and clean, tools to work on, buildings to repair and on and on and on...you're missing almost the entire picture of life pre-industrialization.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, but bad capitalism didn't come and separate us from what we produce. And that is a huge huge huge cost. You enjoy inexpensive food, but if you had to work in an abattoir for a day of your life, you might switch over to very expensive, organic and humane food.

This is just an example of how "automation" separates us from the things we use, and how it breeds ignorance, which is a huge cost and very harmful. You love your Nikes? Spend a day visiting the sweatshops that make them and you may very well cry their weight in tears of sorrow, guilt and remorse. But capitalism and automation HIDES the TRUTH of what we do and what we consume, and that is a HUGE distortion.

Overall, are we actually better off? We're poisoning the world, razing entire ecosystems, torturing animals... But none of these downsides is registered or accounted for by our industrialized consumerist habits. Modern, automation-using, industrialized and capitalist people are less happy than "savages" living on nature.

Add all the benefits AND ALL THE COSTS and look how far ahead we are. We may well be behind.

[–]wecandobetter 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I have plenty of problems with mindless consumerism and of the terrible cost of the modern standard of living. Furthermore I'll have you know I don't own a single pair of Nikes. I live pretty simply. But this cartoon isn't about any of those things. It's just arguing that automation hasn't given us more free time...but it definitely has.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It doesn't say "free time". It's interesting how everyone is reading this Rorschach test of a cartoon.

I read it like... "Because you don't own a piece of the means of production."

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's why they want everyone to become autistic automatons.