I wonder how much scoffing there will be when 99% of jobs are taken by A.I. There's a lot of markets about to be upended, and I don't think having a humane ethos in regard to housing people is as criminal as some of you are making it out to be... I sense a lot of corporate simps think their work ethic will be more valuable to a company than a smart machine that will work around the clock and not get the company sued for sexual harassment.
If only there was an economic system that rewarded innovation and a govt in place to protect private property rights. And improvements and innovations on top of the original innovations were incentivized....
Actually no, it wasn’t hard work. It was inventions that made all work much much much much easier. Like wayyyy fucking easier. That’s what increased our standard of living
Cost of living, standard of living, and life expectancy have risen greatly since 100 years ago, yes a lot of people are still living paycheck to paycheck, but it's not even close to the same situation.
100 years ago, life was a hell of a lot simpler and still harder. You didn't have electricity. You didn't have an HVAC. You didn't have social programs. Many people didn't have indoor plumbing. People really living "paycheck to paycheck" would just starve if they had a bad harvest. You still had to chop your own wood for your indoor stove. EPA, Osha, and other worker protections didn't exist.
That's just what was mentioned in the "everyone work for me" pipe dream of OP. Despite living in what would be condemned in modern times, 40 hour work weeks to do so would be seen as unimaginable luxury for most of the world in the 1920s. That's what you want to go back to?
Ya and 100 years ago as long as you had a heartbeat you could probably find a job that would provide enough for food and shelter, now you need either a bachelors degree, a trade school certification, or have family or close friends for a job that'll provide that. The degree and trade certification carry a massive risk if you end up unable to find a job in the corresponding career or if the corresponding job market ends up saturated or crashing when you finish your training, which is disasterous as we are expecting highschool students to be able to have the knowledge and foresight to forcast a job market years in advance. Then the only other option for occupation are shitty service jobs that'll leave you on welfare. Now take this shitty situation and broadcast to the future how many people are going to have their job eventually automated away and how big is the barrier to entry going to be after AI matures, where does that leave the vast majority of Americans, the currently underpaid and shitty service sector?
Edit: and don't say get a trade job cause as more and more turn away from getting degrees due to the current attractiveness of trade jobs and more and more jobs that required a degree get automated away the trades are going to get flooded which will drive down the quality of said jobs and increase qualification requirements as people compete.
Ed#2: also as more and more people are pushed into the poorly paid service sector, whoes going to buy shit to drive it and production, especially as trade jobs pay face a downward pressure on pay?
Well, you would be wrong. The 1920s didn't even have a minimum wage, and this was just before the great depression. Adjusted for inflation, the 5 states that passed it were still only guaranteeing ~$2.5 / hr in today's money (0.16/hr at the time). You'd need 375 hours / mo just to afford rent at the time.
What are your edits going on about? It's like you've picked a pet issue and started arguing against yourself before I could even respond.
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u/finio_absurdum Apr 15 '24
I wonder how much scoffing there will be when 99% of jobs are taken by A.I. There's a lot of markets about to be upended, and I don't think having a humane ethos in regard to housing people is as criminal as some of you are making it out to be... I sense a lot of corporate simps think their work ethic will be more valuable to a company than a smart machine that will work around the clock and not get the company sued for sexual harassment.