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Re:NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF by 3cats-in-a-coat on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:00AM (#37220993)
What quality of life? Most families need three or more jobs to cover basic needs of life like housing, healthcare, food and travel. Salaries are rising. The value of those salaries is dropping.

We are more interconnected and more surrounded by tech. This is not the same as higher quality of life. It means more tech. Which is the subject. Oh I can watch someone pretend to be NPC on the other side of the globe on a pocket box. Quality of life.

I think it’s telling people want a vacation away from tech and “modern life”. Why would they go for lower quality of life as a vacation?

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Re:NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF by tchaffee on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:27AM (#37222398)
I already mentioned the problem of masssive wealth gaps indirectly. Us workers need to organize to recapture the profit that used to be shared with us. UPS workers just negotiated $170,000 TC. I think that's enough to live a nice life, especially if two people are contributing to a household.

Productivity has increased by a lot. It's up to voters and workers to get their fair share of those gains. The uber wealthy are not going to willingly give it up.

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