• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Capitalists are freaking out over the declining birthrate because anyone with a brainstem knows “AI” and robots won’t replace human workers for a long time, and the machine is hungry.

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      10 days ago

      It seems like its just ethno-nationalists freaking out. Capitalists have been tackling this problem with immigration for a long time.

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          9 days ago

          In about 80 years global population growth should finish leveling out, at which point immigration will become a more difficult strategy for all but the most popular destinations. In the meantime, development only seems to be a barrier for importing huge numbers of low skilled labor, and thats mostly because many of the jobs were exported directly to them instead. A more developed globe has actually been a boon for anyone looking to import skilled labor.

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      McDonalds threatened to replace their employees with machines, and when they tried it cost them millions…

      “15 an hour? Meet your replacement!” was nothing but a scare tactic, if machines were viable they’d already be in use.

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        I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India

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          They already have robots taking orders and payments, I think the last thing that will be automated in Maccas will be burger assembly

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      10 days ago

      can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out