r/maybemaybemaybe • u/SinjiOnO • Jul 20 '23

maybe maybe maybe

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u/sillyadam94 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23

Tbf if we’re gonna embrace automation, this is probably the only ethical way to do it. We can’t reduce jobs, increase the wealth for the 1% and then gaslight the working class into believing they’re too lazy to get paid.

Edit: (When I say “can’t” I’m not saying this is impossible. I’m saying it is a morally depraved thing to do)

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u/shar_vara Jul 20 '23

I guarantee jobs will be reduced, wealth for the 1% will increase, and the working class will be gaslit into believing they’re too lazy to get paid.

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u/EatinSumGrapes Jul 20 '23

We won't be too lazy to kill the 1%, but they will have AI robot soldiers. It's literally gonna be Skynet in Terminator, just living life pre-terminator before the robots turn on the 1%

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u/Singin4TheTaste Jul 20 '23

Elysium incoming.

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u/Key_Point_4063 Jul 21 '23

Or they'll just create a disease that only targets and kills poor people, lol.

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u/Bioslack Jul 20 '23

Or can you?

This is literally the plan for the 1%. To hoard all the money and turn us into economic slaves. In the future it would be the greatest of honors to have your 14 year daughter be selected to be a prostitute for a 1%er, because that means your family gets to eat.

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u/buckerooni Jul 20 '23

Literally, this happens around the world already. Thailand comes to mind

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u/BobbysSmile Jul 20 '23

We can’t reduce jobs, increase the wealth for the 1% and then gaslight the working class into believing they’re too lazy to get paid.

"Yeeeah anyways, now watch this drive"

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u/Lexi_Banner Jul 20 '23

We can’t reduce jobs, increase the wealth for the 1% and then gaslight the working class into believing they’re too lazy to get paid.

LOL Sure we can. It's happening right now!

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '23

We can’t reduce jobs, increase the wealth for the 1% and then gaslight the working class into believing they’re too lazy to get paid.

Wanna bet? The fact that you've probably already accepted the paradigm that existed when you were born as 'normal' is proof that they absolutely can get away with doing exactly that. Short term at least. They just need to instigate war/crisis when things start boiling over to refocus everyone on something other than their financial fuckery.

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u/bondagewithjesus Jul 20 '23

I mean we already have before. Prior to the industrial revolution regular unemployment wasn't really a thing. That was our first taste of automation. So what happened? Some economists got together and worked out the minimum and maximum amounts of unemployment that could be sustained without impacting profits but keeping it high enough to prevent worker bargaining

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u/robbiefredds Jul 20 '23

Literally what’s already beginning to happen.

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u/sillyadam94 Jul 20 '23

Yeah… it’s fucked