• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Machines replacing people is not a bad thing if they can actually perform the same or better; the solution to unemployment would be Universal Basic Income.

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      4 hours ago

      Unfortunately, UBI is just a solution to unemployment. Another solution (and the one apparently preferred by the billionaire rulers of this planet) is letting the unemployed rot and die.

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      For labor people don’t like doing, sure. I can’t imagine replacing a friend of mine with a conversation machine that performs the same or better, though.