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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8759572" data-attributes="member: 42856">Is there? A century and a half ago, we had to work 12 hours a day in factory, and got barely enough to eat. Now, we are working 35 hours a week, with talks to switch to a 4-days week, and have never been collectively able to afford more things even on a minimum-wage. While it's true that inequalities abound, and right now the prospect can be frightening to see jobs disappear (even though it is happening already on a daily basis), the crux of the problem is that, as capital is replacing work, the wealth redistributing effect of wages will be less effective. But the role of the economy isn't to redistribute wealth, it is to create wealth.Artists aren't probably the next to disappear, but I really think that the days of cab drivers are counted. And truck drivers. And perhaps delivery service persons if they can be replaced by self-moving delivery locker. Their jobs could be replaced in a very short amount of time.Whether it ultimately results into a few extremely rich, capital owning people living in a luxury with AI-controlled paradise providing them with everything they can desire while 80-95% of the population barely survive in trailer parks where they are given Soylent Green laced with pharmaceutical not to make them revolt OR it results in the creation of taxes to finance effective redistributive measures is a matter of people voting to increase the socialization of services we currently need to buy on personal income (in the former example, creation of a public transportation systems with roaming fleets of collective self-driving cabs, inexpensive or free to the end user). While I can see a few mistakes going forward, I don't assume that citizens, at large, will all make the absolute worst choice.</blockquote>

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