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A lot of particularly capital-brained projects for labour replacement rest implicitly on the assumption that _there will be jobs_ - somewhere else - for everyone displaced by whatever labour-reducing invention they're championing this week.

I really don't think that Khosrowshahi, for example, has any reason to _care_ whether Uber's investments into automating long-haul trucking will displace truck drivers, because surely they can find other work.

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Owen
Owen
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This has never been fully true, but it's diminishingly true as more and more business categories come to be dominated by staunch labour elimination.
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Owen
Owen
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But it'll take time - and probably violence, unfortunately - before the stakeholders in this labour-elimination project come to understand that they are threatening peoples' lives, and that the people they are threatening are not, in fact, going to take that calmly.
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Alex P. 👹
Alex P. 👹
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there's also the crisis scenario of jobs (paid labor) disappearing while lots and lots of work that nobody (or, rather, nobody with money) wants to pay for remains to be done
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Alex P. 👹
Alex P. 👹
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like, i am increasingly terrified of the world where our collective unpaid, unmet needs keep creeping up higher and higher, but all the oligarchs see is an ocean of "surplus" humanity to be disposed of once they've wrung out all the blood
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