Comment on Interesting and probably true
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
horses probably get to live a much more chill life now that they are retired.
i just wish thatd be true for humans too. machines already replace most of us.
There’s an almost unlimited amount of work to do. The elderly/children to care for, the art to be made, the research to be done, etc. Tractors freed up a hive amount of the world population to work on other things, current technology does the same.
The problem is that humans have made a system of tightly controlling what work gets valued, how much it gets paid, what should be done and gatekeeping qualifications/resources to be allowed to do things.
no there isn’t unlimited work we HAVE to do. we are just slaves of the system tightly controlling our work, so people can profit massively off of our work.
nothing says we can’t slow the fuck down.
To cRazi_man’s point there is some work that does needs to be done in order to ensure everyone has food, water, shelter, healthcare, free of poison, etc.
However the vast majority of human labor does not go towards those goals and is instead dedicated to who can get the highest score in ‘slave games’ while that necessary work is grossly undermanned.
It’s not “unlimited” but holy shit is there a lot of damage from the last ~200 years that needs to be undone. Learning and teaching people to rest is a very important one.
Modern horses usually have a short rough life and they are sent to the sausage factory from slightest join ache. Luckiest end up in some petting farm.
Where do you even get that from? Most horses are pampered lawn ornaments.
Depends very much on the country they are in. Racehorses don’t tend to live very long and there’s still places where horses are being used for transportation, especially in remote mountainous regions.
oh no :( how so?
There are geographical differences, but in most places their upkeep is expensive and they are mostly used for racing or as beasts of burden. They don’t need much health problems to loose their worth and go to the butchers really easy.
It is true already. Washing machines, dishwashers, tractors, lifts, escalators, cars, computers, cnc, power tools, cranes, etc. They make our life much more relaxed.
then why do i still have to work 9-6 like the computers i use arent making me as productive as a full room of bureaucrats
Machines make your life chill.
Buisness owners though strive for hell.
And working class likes it. Otherwise where strikes.
Because with productivity the standard of living that most people expect has risen at least as much.
the standard of living is literally deteriorating. we don’t have as good healthcare, transport or housing. the difference is we have electronics.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Do you prefer eternal stagnacy just to keep unskilled jobs? No judgment towards “unskilled” but some jobs just die out and create new jobs. The horse’s carts might be gone, but we have cars now with millions of diverse jobs plus legwork. I prefer a car over a horse-ride. And a house over a hut. And mobile phones over smoke-signals or pidgeons.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
no, im arguing for the opposite. as soon as we have our needs taken care of, we can slow the fuck down and let the machines do the work for us.
we can toil less and less as technological advancements come around.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
That I’d wholeheartedly agree with. We long have reached a state of extreme productivity. Yet the spoils of labour is basically still the same. At least for the 99.9%
Potatar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We gave up “all-flat-terrain”, carbon neutral, semi-self driving things and got “this road is not paved so I’ll shake you so much that your baby will die”, “created new jobs: climate disaster control”, “just currently getting some self-driving capabilities”.
I’m half-joking of course, cars are great for long distance travel but you could argue humanity would be far better (apart from GDP) if we have no roads in the cities.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Actually the cities would be nice with cars if we weren’t all so fucking overcrowded. People are fleeing the rurals and migrants do the rest (this is not an anti-migration-rant, it’s just the basic number of more people, wherever their origin might be). Half the population and streets could breathe