• Ogmios
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    18 months ago

    The point is that our economy should be built upon jobs that actually provide a meaningful purpose along with a living wage, like trades, crafts or other skilled work, instead of expecting people who are trying to build a life for themselves to be subjected to soul crushing busy work to line the pockets of corporate stooges.

    • @ccunning
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      118 months ago

      People still want to eat ice cream cones tho

      • Ogmios
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        -28 months ago

        I was unaware that Dairy Queen invented ice cream.

        Hell, we could have even better ice cream if those people were making their own ice cream to sell for themselves.

    • Ech
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      108 months ago

      To be frank, until we reach a point of complete automation (which is a whole other can of worms), jobs like that are explicitly necessary in the world everyone wants to live in, with convenient access to pretty much anything they could want (though obviously at a reasonable wage). Whether that world is worth those jobs isn’t a question I think I could do justice addressing, but it’s certainly one society needs to determine an answer for.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        So basically Star Trek.

        Technology is so advanced that all basic needs are met with ease, and money no longer matters. Then jobs change from something you do to not die, to something you do because you want to.