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Disgusting. Hire a human.
Only people traumatized by living in capitalist states would be upset about manual labor being automated.
Do you know of a country who pays their manual laborers a living wage even if they don’t have work?
I'm not aware of any country where there isn't enough work to go around. And last I checked, China doesn't have problems with homeless or unemployment. Socialism doesn't require people to work for the sake of work. In a socialist system, if it ever gets to the point where there's not enough work to go around the solution would be to reduce working hours.
More busywork, more bullshit jobs, more alienation of labor, for no reason except the system demands it. The longer capitalism is outdated, the more it turns into a self-serving tumor.
Yes but, automation has never in history lead to utopia. Think about the labor unions, Marxist. Gotta kill the billionaires first. Can’t be a communist country with billionaires.
Can’t be a communist country with billionaires.
Assuming by communist you include a socialist country then in a dictatorship against capital you could.
automation has never in history lead to utopia
Luddites didn't defeat fascists. Marxist-leninists did. Burning the loom did not liberate the weaver.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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