Comment on How in the hell

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they could automate it, they would have done so already.

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  • radioactiveradio@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not at the level of food service industry, cashier’s and the like. Simply cuz automating gutter cleaning doesn’t make capitalists any money.

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  • unfreeradical@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We, not they.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh?

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      • unfreeradical@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The suggestions was that workers (“we”) should seek to automate processes that workers prefer not to perform.

        You objected that if such automation were possible to achieve and to implement, then they would have already done so.

        Processes of production, and the utilization and development of machinery implicated in production, is determined by business owners, not by workers.

        Business owners are bound by the profit motive, not by a motive to improve the experience of workers.

        Any activity or objective not supported by the profit motive is simply discarded, under our current systems.

        The meaningful suggestion is that workers (“we”) should seek to automate processes that workers prefer not to perform, even if business owners (“they”) have no motive for doing so.

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