Comment on Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months agoCharge everyone that uses computers then, instead of using secretaries to do everything.
Stupid idea because it incentives inefficiencies. Taxes need to be made up elsewhere like in vat or income tax.
Blackout@kbin.social 8 months ago
Computers didnt reduce jobs, they created many more.
Amazon (along with others) absolutely destroyed jobs, killed competition and violated antitrust laws. All because they were wealthy and could buy their way out. Then they treated their employees with contempt (piss-bottles) and made them work in unsafe work environments (Illinois tornado). They deserve to be broken up like all monopoly-like businesses.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How did the printing press make more jobs?
It didn’t at least not immediately.
This is just being a luddite all over again. Higher output and less work for a society is a dream we should all be striving for. Keeping people in shitty jobs because they don’t have another job to go to when we could replace their work is barbaric.
Blackout@kbin.social 8 months ago
I didn't say keep people in shitty jobs. I said pretty much let's make Amazon pay back all the tax breaks theyve got and if they want to remove employees tax them for it. Why do you think all the cities in America threw themselves at Amazon and offered $100s of millions of tax breaks to open facilities near them. It was for the jobs they were bringing locally. They want to remove, fine. Other corporations that effectively pay $0 in taxes each year want to dump workers too, that's cool. They better pay for doing it tho. For running small businesses out of towns. For using genuine antitrust practices to prevent real competition to keep wages and jobs safe all these years. They owe the American people. All you guys defending them, defending the failure of capitalism can suck my dick. I'm done fighting this with you.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s insanity. You can’t draw the line anywhere clearly
The government fucked up by giving them tax breaks. They operate within the confines of the law, the law needs changing so politicians can’t give them handouts.
But taxing efficiencies and advancing the world is the worst idea ever.