Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoFears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouseswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1229cross-posted to: futurology@futurology.todaytechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1229external-linkFears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouseswww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: futurology@futurology.todaytechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoOh I know! Let them build more homes, big neighbourhoods of high-density living spaces. And give them for free to everyone. Then focus energy on growing and distributing enough food. While we’re at it, give everyone healthcare. Then watch those ‘unemployed’ people generate ‘value’ like we’ve never seen. Housed fed healthy people will have great ideas and all the time to implement them.
minus-squareboyi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThe kind of answer I’ve already expected. Keep dreaming, dear Don Quixote.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s not like there is any other answer that’s going to amount to anything workable. You get this situation in 50 shades of bad, but never solve the real issue any other way.
Oh I know!
Let them build more homes, big neighbourhoods of high-density living spaces. And give them for free to everyone.
Then focus energy on growing and distributing enough food.
While we’re at it, give everyone healthcare.
Then watch those ‘unemployed’ people generate ‘value’ like we’ve never seen.
Housed fed healthy people will have great ideas and all the time to implement them.
The kind of answer I’ve already expected. Keep dreaming, dear Don Quixote.
It’s not like there is any other answer that’s going to amount to anything workable.
You get this situation in 50 shades of bad, but never solve the real issue any other way.