• Juice@midwest.social
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    “Machines were the weapon used to quell the revolt of specialized labor” – Karl Marx

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    So is offshoring and immigration, and these are way bigger than AI.

    In fact most of the job losses since AI clown show started has been form off shoring professional jobs to idea.

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      49 minutes ago

      If you eliminate enough jobs and increase unemployment, wages go down across the board. But then you also do away with high wages for highly technical roles

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    That would be somewhat OK if people could figure out to vote for taxing companies, high income and wealth.
    And the redistribute so nobody goes hungry and all have health care.

    But as it is, wealth is accumulating more for the top 10% than ever.
    All the advantages are given to the rich, the idea of leveling the playing field is passé.

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      Yup. Basically any kind of advancement in technology is instantly an attack on the working class because of our economic system.

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      Top 10% are useful idiots who get to live the “middle” class life.

      Real money is all centralized with the people who actually own these mega corporations.

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        Let’s say if the rich were taxed fairly, the rest of us could have about twice as much.
        Instead we are squabbling over whether the extremely poor should be allowed to have food stamps!?
        It’s insane!

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          This didn’t happen over night. Boomers vote for this their entire lives.

          Now they get to enjoy the welfare state whole the rest of us eat shit

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              People who destroyed social safety nets are the people who living off welfare.

              I am highlighting how clown the system is and boomers benefited from screwing everyone over.

              We have people working for money with no health insurance living worse off than people who don’t work.

              This is unsustainable

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        Yes those are extreme, but basically it’s all above 10%, but you are absolutely right about the top 0.1%, it shouldn’t even be possible to be that rich.