The easy solutiont o that is getting rid of the oligarchs then.
Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea
Fades@lemmy.world 7 months ago
it will NEVER happen as long as we live in an oligarchy in which the rich are dependent on the lower classes not only for their labor but they also need us to exist for their feelings of superiority. They need people below them to feel good about themselves, they will NEVER let us escape the wage-slave to profit vacuumer dichotomy.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Nahdahar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I disagree, I think it’s always just about money. Power hungry-ness comes from the fear of losing your current position, the fear of not advancing and getting left behind. With power they secure the position they have. And it’s not just exclusive to the rich. You can see the exact same pattern in a random fucking McDonald’s.
If it was more profitable (and possible) to automate 40% of work at any given company (the ratio Gates said in this article), everyone would do it in a heartbeat.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I don’t think it’s a “need for a feeling of superiority” that’s keeping it this way.
I think it’s because the hunger of the oligarchy is literally bottomless.
Each oligarch is in competition with all the other oligarchs.
Oligarch power is wealth.
So the oligarch feels eternal pressure to get wealthier. To beat the other oligarchs who are also constantly pressured to become wealthier. It’s a variety of prisoner’s dilemma.