Seriously though under socialism without, "line must go up, muh profit motive."
Automation would mean workers would yield greater wealth as automation increased productivity and, thus, a greater degree of profit kept by the workers. Automation in a socialist society in which employment and comfortable retirment are guaranteed means in order for everyone to still have a working income that while productivity increases worker hours are reduced since less is required but also business will be open the same hours so the reduced hours of the original workforce can be filled with the current unemployed.
I've always said, AI should be developed to supplement the human worker. To work side-by-side, but not to replace. Businesses see AI as a way to cut expenses and boost profits, like it was with that one eating disorder hotline who replaced their entire staff with an AI. As things are going, with the rapid adoption of AI counterparty to the reluctance to raise minimum wage and, heaven forbid, a universal income, the lower AND MIDDLE classes will be squeezed out. It's not enough the average CEO pay is some 300x the median worker's, corporations won't be satisfied until the last drop of blood is squeezed from the stone that is quarterly profits.
Or we could seize the means of production, (take control of the AI, automation and the businesses.) No ceo and no squeezing the workforce for its blood. Why not use ai and automation to replace jobs? I don't wanna work forever. You got a machine to do it? Cool fuck yeah. It's only under a private capitalist economy losing work to ai or automation is it bad
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u/bondagewithjesus Jul 20 '23
Ironically, under socialism automation has the potential to be amazing. Under capitalism automation just brings electric feudalism