[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.