• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    SO many things could be automated. My guess is the vast majority of jobs exist not because someone has to do them, but because you can pay humans less then the cost to automate.

    Thus, most of humanity toils not to produce, but to save the owners money. We could almost have a workless utopia if we set the minimum wage to $100/hour for a while, but the transition would see the vast majority of people become unemployed.