Hello lemmy! ^^

I was given this debate topic for an ethics class and since I really like this “small” tech savvy community that we have I wanted to know what were your thoughts.

I personally love the idea of replacing jobs so we can focus on the things we love and care (ranging from developing games to spending time with loved ones).

But on the other side I am rather scared that our society will not be able to follow the rapid growth of technology and put in place good regulations to avoid widening the gap between the top% and the rest of us

Thanks for your answers ^^

  • @foggy
    8•8 months ago

    There needs to be a mechanism through which the wages lost moving out to the citizenry continues to move out towards the citizenry.

    If I employ 1000 people and now I can buy 100 AI robots at 1/10th the cost of a worker that do the job to 10 workers each… It’s good that a company is progressing society by creating this ease of workload, but it is bad that this ease translates to more people having fewer wages.

    This is the fundamental problem.

    The obvious answer is taxation and civil programs. But the haves have all the power in saying how it should go.

    So it’s either UBI or guillotines.