Flippanarchy

This is silly, off the top of my head:

Electric lighting, Air conditioning, refrigeration, vacuums, washers/dryers, modern toilets + sewage systems, grocery stores, GPS guided + Air-conditioned combine harvesters.

This very moment I have my Instapot cooking, the dishwasher washing, the washer washing, the dryer drying, as I lie in bed (which I bought instead of made) cooled by a fan. I just took a drink from a water bottle I didnt have to whittle by hand. Life is, in this beautiful instant, pretty good.

This is what comes to mind to me every time "the demographic problem" of aging population comes up.

Lowering the number of humans in a natural way is a good thing and economy should evolve into supporting that, not the other way around.

But we depend on a system that relies on constant grow instead so a bunch of people can rape kids without repercussion...

Historically nothing changes until the pedophile class and corrupt politicians live in fear.

I don't know. Some people I know are spending a lot of time on gaming and social media instead of doing shit in the real world. I don't know if more free time would translate in anything else than more time on addictive behaviors.

It's a complicated subject, there are a lot of issues with the current state of technology that can be blamed on capitalism but we also need to start blaming our consuming habits at some point if we at least want to promote the use of products that serves us the way we want to be served.

Or increased pay.

Gotta keep the people off of the streets.

It's actually the opposite. The more we can automate and the more we produce with the same time and effort input, the less we earn and the more we have to work. Which has been happening for a long time, and is why anyone thinking that AI would help anyone other than billionaires is a dummy.

Here's a weird trick I've learned: I just care a lot less than I used to and only do the bare minimum a lot of the time. If you're good at what you do, you can slack off quite a bit without drawing any attention to yourself most of the time. Obv only applicable in certain job roles / conditions, so I plan to stay at this job forever.

It's almost like the lack of unions is causing workers to have worse conditions.

In recent times, for sure. But that's because the capitalist class have done a very good job of making people afraid to rock the boat like their ancestors did...

After all when you're one bad paycheck from starvation, or you're working two jobs just to make ends meet, your first priority is surviving.

And for those who aren't, there's a practically militarised police force to keep you down should you ever step out of line.

It's pathetic that there hasn't been a raise in the minimum wage in like 50 years. The epstein class is completely opposed. Forget about 4 day work week. Never even mentioned. Politicians would rather serve capital than win.

So Marx did at least have a point...

nothing to discuss. this is how capitalism was designed to work. real benefits to the working class come, sadly, from fights and often involve blood.

Generally speaking increased worker productivity has lead to increased working hours, people today work more hours, now must be available at all hours, are being coerced into skipping legally mandated lunch breaks, into jobs with significantly worse conditions (because they can get away with it), in exchange for significantly less pay when you take into account the cost of living (yes inflation is technically stable but that doesn't matter for the average person, cost of living does).

Just to put credit back in here, without bringing more clicks to Twitter:

https://xcancel.com/orevazsn/status/2056666244300825043

Chiming in to say this appears to be a quote from David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs.

It has a bit, but far far from what could have been possible (excluding the usa maybe).