[gruez]

>Suppose all companies follow the suite who is going to buy their crap?

There's no way that paying for a bunch of employees that you don't need, just so you can have some customers, is going to make sense. Even if you're operating a company town, only a fraction of their income is going to be spent on your company's goods/services, so you'll never be able to recoup the wage that way.

[arnonejoe]

I think what he is trying to say is if there is mass unemployment as a result of "all companies following suit", no one will be able to buy their products.

[satyrun]

Blue collar workers won't have this problem for a very long time.

It seems obvious that many white collar workers today will have to do something involving physical labor at some point in the future.

I expect I will be facing this in my mid 50s. Really not ideal timing.

[drewbeck]

Maybe not with AI, but blue collar workers suffered in the same way bc of job flight and automation in decades past.