• @Donkter
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    322 months ago

    That has forever been the fallacy.

    The poor won’t die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.

    • @DogWater
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      52 months ago

      That’s true until it isn’t. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.

      The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 months ago

        You still need loaders, drivers, retailers to get anything to the customer. A lot of rich ski and holiday towns can’t staff the stores and Cafe’s, because the employees can’t afford to pay rent in the same towns, so they face a similar issue…

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Amazon is already testing robotic loaders, self driving trucks are already in development, and vending machines retail everything in Japan.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Maybe, but there are still a lot of invisible people involved to get the food all the way to your table. And small suppliers cannot afford to switch their whole operation to robots.

            • @DogWater
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              22 months ago

              Yeah so they go out of business lol