Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wealth redistribution. The problem is that we funnel is directly back through purchases providing an inordinate amount of power to the owner class.

  In a bizarre way our existence will be allowed only to subsidize the wealthy.

  At that point we should ditch money all together.

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  • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    UBI is not about wealth redistribution. The easiest way I’d describe it is if we created food stamps but for cash.

    And the phenomenon you are describing where the rest of society is subsidizing the wealthy is our current reality.

    UBI in a sense ditches the concept of money as an incentive tool for productivity.

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    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was responding to the idea that our jobs are going to be automated away.

      Which is exactly was I said the “productive” (those with the means of automation)

      Will live lavishly while the “unproductive” ( the rest of us) will not.

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      • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t buy the lies. AI cannot automate everything and the jobs it will replace are ones that aren’t of much value in the age of improved efficiency (which is what AI really is).

        Though I won’t argue that the owners of AI will be the winners of whatever revolution comes out of this whole cacophony of noise.

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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Follow the money. It goes from the wealthy to the government (taxes), to us to the wealthy through our purchases.

    And right now it goes from the poor to the government (taxes) to the wealthy, and we don’t get fuck all.

    You’re saying you’d rather have nothing than have something.

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    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Im saying of we are going to be making radical changes, which I am in favor of, why stop there?

      Its like we cant even conceive of a world without capitalism.

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