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[-] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

The problem comes when those technological innovations increase productivity which companies use solely to increase their bottom line. These innovations should be benefitting workers directly.

Outside of that a lot of your argument rests on the idea that there will always be new better jobs for humans to move into. However even the examples you gave aren't great. How is someone doing manufacturing or transportation or extinguishing the street lights going to suddenly become a computer programmer? Especially considering how atleast in the US you'd have to pay to go to college to do that. And even then we've started to see in recent years a lot of these new "high demand" jobs getting saturated. As time goes on and companies use productivity gains to purely to benefit their profits they're gonna lay off more people and new jobs from new technologies aren't going to be able to keep up.

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