• @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    14 months ago

    No the saving should be divided with society.

    If anyone should be getting the gains of that automation it’s the people that built it and improved output per person. Not the people that in no way contributed anything at all towards progress.

    • @Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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      14 months ago

      I don’t disagree, but workers are a part of society too and if automation increases the productivity of the workers, they should get more too.

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        4 months ago

        UBI, lower taxes, free public transport, free education.

        Many manys I would agree with that. But what you suggest is too difficult and too distorting of the market.

        Say a job get improved because the new version of Microsoft Office is 5% better but no one gets laid off. You can’t even begin to work out things like that.