Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi...
by sangnoir on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:33PM
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> The government prints money and gives it away for free, nobody has to work?
Counter question: assuming there's no UBI, and automation eats the world - Amazon Warehouses and delivery are 99% automated, as are Walmart and MacDonalds - nobody can work[1]. Corporations are still paying close to 0% taxes. How exactly is this supposed to work?
Except a few in repairs and automation, and a handful of industries less amenable to robots.
Counter question: assuming there's no UBI, and automation eats the world - Amazon Warehouses and delivery are 99% automated, as are Walmart and MacDonalds - nobody can work[1]. Corporations are still paying close to 0% taxes. How exactly is this supposed to work?
Except a few in repairs and automation, and a handful of industries less amenable to robots.