The recent Workers World article “Capitalism isn’t working, no jobs to be found” by Martha Grevatt exposes the huge issue of unemployment caused by the bankrupt capitalist system. (workers.org/2025/09/87909/ ) President Donald Trump was well-known before becoming president by the image of him
  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I have absolutely no problem with replacing repetitive, menial, dangerous, underpaid and/or exploitative jobs like Amazon workers with robots, freeing the workforce to do more valuable work than taping boxes shut or pushing a cart around all day.

    BUT, the only way it benefits society is if the the gained productivity is shared with everyone. The asshole who owns this army of robots shouldn’t be allowed to dictate manual labor prices to his customers and accumulate an ungodly amount of wealth from it. Every billionaire who exists is someone who could have charged less for his products but didn’t because he could get away with it.