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by eggy 3592 days ago
That is like saying take back the washing machine, since it took away washer women jobs, of which my Irish grandma was when she emigrated. Change, flow, adapt, is life.

And work is not something you do because you just get compensated for it. Some one pays you what they think a task is worth, and you take up that task, because you are not able or not wanting to move up or horizontally to another job.

It takes energy at the most primal level to accomplish work. The problem with politics is that people then think energy can be printed and everyone can be made happy with an endless supply of happy. We try our best to be compassionate, and hope for everyone's well being, but in the end, work needs to be done to gain something.