| Zkuq said: People here seem disappointed because people lost jobs. The thing is, this is only going to get more severe and a lot more people are going to lose jobs. Most of you who are reading this are going to lose your jobs in the next few decades. It's crucial that we start thinking how we can ensure the income of those people that lose their jobs. |
Actually the companies replacing employes with robots should probably be the first ones to think about that. What is short to middle term profit to them will over time translate to a collapse of sales because they ushered their very own consumerbase into unemployment.
True, foxconn factory workers or Mc Donalds employees aren't exactly middle class, but nevertheless their income gives them spending power, wich in turn provides conditions for a more permeable society and therefore bigger middle class. These jobs are an entry point to rising in society with future generations and they are vanishing.
Companies are going to have to deal with the question of where their money is supposed to come from eventually. At the moment they are busy cutting down the roots of their own income and so far society has no plan B for large unemployment rates.
