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grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

People have been complaining about technology forever. The south complained about machinery that would make slavery obsolete. There’s no pleasing these people.

This guy wants all of the benefits of technology at a low price, but doesn’t want any of the change that occurs from that benefit. What happens if you make everyone work 20 hrs in his example? Everyone makes half what they did before and can’t afford anything. What happens if you fire half the workers in his example? Half the workers can afford the tech but no one else. Which one allows the company to keep selling the tech? The scenario where half are fired… BUT How about we keep all the people like he claims is possible? Then the price of the tech must double. But this guy doesn’t want that because that must be a greedy company. So how will they pay all those employees? What happens when someone else makes the tech with fewer employees and thus lower cost?

So yeah… Tech always requires some to retrain. But society always benefits as a whole.

The only certainty in life is that life is uncertain. To complain about change is just being lazy and refusing to accept change.

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