I don’t know why this was voted down. It sound cynical and potentially judgmental, but I did t read it that way.

There are fewer and fewer jobs available for people without much education, and in the US at least also very little practical assistance. In such a situation going onto disability is a rational decision.

There are jerks who milk the system, sure. But I think the situation described by the article is one where there is no social safety net for the unlucky.

The US seems to have a punitive view of social assistance. This is an important reason why we should use robots to replace middle class jobs ASAP. If the only jobs replaced are physical labor, ced people will be left to rot. If the jobs replaced are lawyers and oncologists, governments will act.

Love where your head's at. I feel like we still have this perspective carried over from the 60s when companies took care of and trained their employees and bettered their career paths, that a job is great But modern jobs are exploitative and brutal.

We deff need automation as fast as possible.