• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Assuming technology didn’t take a dive bomb that would be automated fairly quickly as well, look at how much robotics already does in manufacturing.

    Most people would be reassigned as IT and programmers, robotics technicians, etc. If it was actually done properly.

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      1 year ago

      There’s already like 10 times as many programmers and whatnot then there need to be. Look at how many duplicates apps there are for everything.

      More likely they would be booted out as well

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        1 year ago

        The system encourages those people to engage in the arms race for the next killer app to earn boatloads of money and win the game of capitalism. Finding people who are genuinely interested in maintaining the infrastructure that makes any of that possible is the problem.