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This supermassive black hole of ideology on my facebook feed
Mar 1, 2017 9:43 PM
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Ixadias
Something something, corporate welfare, lower taxes for the super wealthy, high tax burden on the middle class, poor subsidizing the wealthy
playstation360
That is somewhat less relevant now that productivity is through the roof.
thinker1119
It's attributed to someone born in 1931. Someone has done some looking into it. https://bynobleboldness.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/what-a-prof
grandpasonlylivingheir
"But what about my welfare check?" That is what you run into.
gr8snd
oh god give me patience.
tpgreyknight
Okay but maybe -- hear me out -- we can find a halfway point between "eat the rich" and "kill the poor".
teabubbles
"Don't outright execute the rich" is pretty much the middle ground for me.
thatwasradicaldude
If a factory owner fires 40 people and buys a robot, 40 people do no work while the factory owner receives the wages of 40 people.
teabubbles
And those 40 people also mean 40 fewer customers.
hatecat
and? thats his business. he should run it how he sees fit.
thatwasradicaldude
Well with all this talk about "who deserves money for doing work" I thought I'd ask if he deserves 40x as much money for doing the same work
thatwasradicaldude
So the people who were laid off deserve some percentage of the work of the robots. Eventually nobody will work and robots will do everything
hatecat
or maybe people should get marketable skills. its a supply and demand philosophy. if i dont provide you with a good or service, i starve.
thatwasradicaldude
The workers work just as hard as the factory owner, why do they have to scramble to learn a new skill just because they can't afford robots?
hatecat
because if they dont, they starve.
thatwasradicaldude
*why is it morally acceptable to structure a society in a way that benefits a few in power over the masses that work for them