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[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Automation to this level is not the same as industrialisation or the motormobile, we’re not creating nearly enough jobs to offset those that would be lost in the process.

I thought employment rate has been at record lows these last couple years?

All at a time at which 2 incomes barely covers living expenses for many people, where 1 used to cover a house, a wife and 3 kids.

If you take out housing payments/rents as they're due to the housing crisis that's definitely not true

If you're on 2 incomes and struggling with a paid off house you're doing something wrong

Standards were very different in the era you're talking about, there was no eating out, there were no yearly holidays, there was no 8 different subscription services, 3 ipads, 5 tv's, 3 computers, 2 cars, a huge house etcetcetc

Especially if you're a tradie or mining related, you're probably making absolute bank.

[-] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I thought employment rate has been at record lows these last couple years?

We are in a service economy, which hasn't been as exposed to mechanical automation. You think there are still going to be as many jobs in the service industry of we automate it all? You think the market gives two shits about human dignity and keeping us employed?

We're already shipping as many service jobs as we can to cheaper places. You think this doesn't have an effect on our future employment prospects?

If you take out housing payments/rents as they're due to the housing crisis that's definitely not true

Are you hearing yourself?

If you're on 2 incomes and struggling with a paid off house you're doing something wrong

This is such a brain-dead, out of touch take.

How exactly are people, who don't own a home, supposed to get to that point? With piles, and piles of debt, for houses that have gone up, way, way, way beyond inflation.

If they have no relatives who already own property, they are even more truly fucked.

I moved out of home in 2016. I worked 2 days a week on the weekend while studying. I did not apply for Centrelink and managed to get by because I managed to find a pretty cheap place to rent.

This shit is not possible today. And even in 2016 rent was already starting to become expensive I just got lucky.

Housing is THE problem of our generation.

I've managed to get "on the property ladder" but we're quickly pulling it up behind us for many, many people.

And the fact you think corporations, who clearly do not have humanity's best interest at heart, will actually drive real wage growth, with AI, is frankly hilarious.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 3 days ago

yes but the housing crisis is a whole problem in and of itself not related to ai

houses were unaffordable and increasingly unaffordable as you said years before chatgpt3.5 was even released

somehow we have a larger population than ever, more immigrants than ever but still

Mr Crost said Australia needed many more skilled tradespeople — including carpenters, electricians and plumbers — if it was to have any realistic hope of meeting the 1.2 million new homes goal.

"We are currently 83,000 tradies short," he said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/cotality-says-building-delays-not-approvals-holding-up-housing/105614902

if we can get house prices back down i think we’d in far better nick than we were previously

Post-war Australia posed its own set of challenges such as housing shortages, continued rationing, economic instability and general unrest.

https://www.homestolove.com.au/the-block/1940s-houses-australia-21692/

lol seems like some things never change

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