Comment on A fair trade
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months agoPeople can be employed in fields where they’re needed. You wouldn’t argue about maintaining coal mining jobs, would you? I’m all for funding a “coal to clean energy” apprenticeship/certification program or something, but refusing to adopt fridges so the milkman doesn’t have to find a new job is a sure fire way to stifle progress and waste taxpayer money on subsidies.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Sure, I agree with that. The idea that once people are making money a certain way it has to continue forever is harmful.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Would be nice if it weren’t lifetime debt inducing to swap career fields, though.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s true, the way our capitalist system is set up it’s mainly the workers and less wealthy people in general who get screwed by progress and obsolescence. Wealthy people are very worried about it too of course, since something like phasing out coal could mean bankruptcy for them and they’d have to, oh no, get a job or something. That’s harder to feel sorry for though.