[sharpshadow]

There is this joke about socialism where hundreds of workers digging with shovels and somebody asks “Why not use that excavator? One machine could do it in no time” and the other answers “And put 20 men out of work? We’re creating jobs!”.

[api]

This is why a lot of modern leftists are anti-tech. Tech destroys jobs. If we are going to maintain the fiction that full employment is necessary for a modern civilization, everyone has to have a job, and for that to be true we have to restrict our technological progress.

Which is really just making a ton of people waste their time doing bullshit work. I fail to see how this is progressive.

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, I was going to say that many people perceive unemployment as "society does not value you", and that message can be really destructive to people.

But then I remembered how dehumanizing meaningless jobs are, and... I'm not sure how much of a win either direction is.