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[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's not an easy problem to solve. Encouraging unionizing would certainly help, or if you wanna get even more radical, a supplemental UBI. Ultimately though, until those things are more attainable, if an employer hires someone to do a job, and the value created by the person doing that job doesn't justify paying someone a living wage, I think it's on the employer to reevaluate the job they're asking someone to do for them. Maybe that means exploring automation options to help that worker generate more value, or maybe explicitly stating that the job is a part-time job that won't provide a living wage, or maybe reorganizing/adding job responsibilities such that the hired worker can generate more value.

[-] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Fine points, though I think automation is much more likely (as we've already seen it begin to happen) to phase out the human being entirely, rather than make their labor more productive, by simple virtue of the fact that it costs less.

Plus, it only becomes easier for it to cost less, the higher wage the human beings are demanding (and/or forcing via legislation).

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Fine by me, at least in the long run. I look forward to advancing to the utopia where robots do all the work, every human receives a UBI (or money is just done away with entirely), and we're all free to pursue whatever hobbies we want, instead of toiling away to increase stock value for the shareholders. We're probably a long (long) way off from that, but I welcome any progress towards it.

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