[bjelkeman-again]

I have said this before. But it may be worth repeating:

"The problem is that the worker who is going to be out of a job doesn't own the company that buys the robots to replace him/her. Ever heard of a lights out factory that has all the former assembly line workers at home with full salary? Didn't think so."

The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

[dragonwriter]

> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

That's pretty much true-by-definition when it comes to "capitalist societies", but most advanced modern societies aren't really capitalist, and while the course hasn't been strictly monotonic, they've been overall getting farther from capitalism since the late 19th Century heyday of capitalism.

[lmm]

> "The problem is that the worker who is going to be out of a job doesn't own the company that buys the robots to replace him/her. Ever heard of a lights out factory that has all the former assembly line workers at home with full salary? Didn't think so."

Port containerization went a bit like that. Of course, that was back when America had labour unions.

[iak8god]

> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

In the fully-automated future, these societies will violently implode if they aren't reconfigured to provide people with something to do and something to eat.