• BudgieMania@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I really wanna hear what the proposal is for removing “unqualified” jobs en masse without implementing universal basic income.

    The low pay and bad conditions of “unqualified” jobs often gets excused because they, allegedly, are “stepping stones”, a means of sustaining oneself while working towards more specialized careers.

    If you destroy a significant amount of those positions, where does that leave those people? Are we so drunk on cyberpunk-esque lust of AI evolution that we are fine eliminating the means of entry to society for so many?

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      8 months ago

      If it’s anything like Maggie’s legacy in the UK. It just leads to generations of poverty and society degradation that even now don’t look like they will be reversed. Like it’s mad that life was better when people crawled in a hole to mine coal by hand.

      But hey it least it was an excuse for a party when she died.