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by pmr_ 4960 days ago
The argument for full-automation is and cannot be that simple. By just pretending that we just need more of something else you are over-going a lot of real world problems. Most of the people that are being put out of jobs now are not being given a reasonable transition route into those (promised) jobs. And they are also not equipped to take it by themselves, in a lot of circumstances.

If we truly want full-automation of boring and dangerous jobs to become a viable alternative we need a society that is ready for it. You need appropriate living and working conditions, even geographic-spread of those jobs across, education facilities, re-education facilities and so on.

The same as you don't just jump from Capitalist to post-scarcity in the blink of an eye.

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The first step is getting away from the fallacy of commodity money.