• tburkhol@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Exactly. The system is set up so that people work for barely enough to survive. Introducing better tools doesn’t give labor more free time, it gives their bosses more money. We’ve seen this with every technology since the cotton gin now: that’s why no one imagines that AI will give people more time with their families.

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      2 hours ago

      Except piecework and flat rate jobs still exist. You don’t have to work for someone else especially with how affordable most of these tools are.

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        24 hours ago

        You’re the one who asked “Why isn’t anyone saying that [great labor saving technology] will give us more free time?”

        • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          Its not my fault you havent accepted youre a wage slave yet and havent become the right amount of cynical that you can recognize dripping sarcasm when its right in front of you.