General Discussion

They are not handed on down from gods. They are not writ in stone. They are what we decide they are. Not individually, but as a group.

I don’t think shelf stockers mind giving up the job, but what do we have as a community to offer in its place? Customer service jobs? No, wait. STEM careers? Those jobs are also in jeopardy. A really adequate social safety net? Not here, not in our raw capitalist Mecca.

We better figure it out soon as more and more jobs are replaced by automation, AI, robots. The default “decision” appears to be sorry, fella, no one is entitled to a job. Or a safety net that serves your interests. Instead, top capitalists decide for us, to their near term profit. They better duck when the abandoned and displaced come after them with pitchforks and hammers.

No, wait, the very top know this. That’s why they are building bunkers for themselves. They know what’s coming. And they always have money for the modern versions of praetorian guards. $1.5 trillion you say? Gawd knows the full cost when factoring in their non-military guards.

I don’t mean to totally put down what you say, but it’s often forgotten that we make the rules for ourselves or allow others to do so to their private benefit. (…perhaps not the hill to die on as there are mind numbing and body destroying jobs almost all would give up if there were clear and accessible alternatives out there.)