Submitted 2 years ago by mayonesa@wolfballs.com to freeforum@wolfballs.com
https://rumble.com/vxpfrb-fully-unattended-gas-stations-issues.html
Workers: we want wages higher than our market value and we have a union. Democrats: we need higher taxes for anti-poverty, anti-drug, anti-racism, and anti-inequality programs. Business: ok, Workers you can go home now. We cannot afford you anymore. Workers: why would capitalism do this to us?
People blame capitalism because they are too stupid to understand what actually happened.
There are still workers, but they're likely gonna be higher paid higher skilled workers, and without that initial job to get into the job market, I don't know how young people get to square 1.
Youth unemployment is extremely high for this reason. People who already have jobs don't usually lose their jobs to reductions, it's when those people move up or quit or are fired for unrelated reasons that they just aren't replaced.
Millennials like to shit on the boomers for the "fuck you, got mine" mentality, but I'd argue we're the worst about that mentality.
https://www.cnbc.com/id/38674003/ (Old article about global youth unemployment)
I agree about the initial job thing. First jobs in the 70s-80s-90s were fast food, gas stations, mowing lawns, working desks. Now all of those are taken over by minorities.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
What is also remarkable to think about is the fact that places with low crime, like whitopia enclaves in Scandinavia, Canada, & the American uppermidwest, and all of South Korea, Japan, and Singapore, could really just have completley unmanned convenience stores and various other facilities operating solely off of robots with a camera to potentially track down the occasional youth or homeless person that might try to steal...
But they resist doing it because part of the joy of owning a business is having employees and feeling good that you are giving back to the community by providing jobs in addition to services.
If these people keep pushing, they will ruin everything.
It doesn't actually need to go robotic until the population declines significantly.
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I dunno. I think we should have robots do all the boring jobs. There are plenty of things which are unpaid now but need doing.