• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      Capitalists are freaking out over the declining birthrate because anyone with a brainstem knows “AI” and robots won’t replace human workers for a long time, and the machine is hungry.

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        It seems like its just ethno-nationalists freaking out. Capitalists have been tackling this problem with immigration for a long time.

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            In about 80 years global population growth should finish leveling out, at which point immigration will become a more difficult strategy for all but the most popular destinations. In the meantime, development only seems to be a barrier for importing huge numbers of low skilled labor, and thats mostly because many of the jobs were exported directly to them instead. A more developed globe has actually been a boon for anyone looking to import skilled labor.

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        McDonalds threatened to replace their employees with machines, and when they tried it cost them millions…

        “15 an hour? Meet your replacement!” was nothing but a scare tactic, if machines were viable they’d already be in use.

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          I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India

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            They already have robots taking orders and payments, I think the last thing that will be automated in Maccas will be burger assembly

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        Lol. What? Who? Which “capitalists”?

        I swear, Lemmy is sometimes just as bad as the far right talking about “antifa”.

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        can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out

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          Please open a book. Remember: it only counts if it contains more sentences than pictures.

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                Oh the hilarity! Someone on a French instance stepping in. 😁

                Maybe this is more relatable to you:

                France pension reforms: Macron signs pension age rise to 64 into law https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65279818

                And you are the loudest protestors as well! Thank you for very likely personally proving my point (IRL as well!)

                can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out

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                  Why are you linking all these imperialist nations with strong ties to capital and industry? I’ve never seen someone kick their own ass so hard. Most nations are capitalist nations. The globe is factually dominated by capitalist interests. Congrats, your ideology already won.

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                    you have a basic understanding that a country doesn’t have to be full blown aids communist to have socialist elements right?

                    capitalists aka normal people who aren’t broke uni students are worried about the declining birthrate because people like you and me will get old and need support, if there is not enough people to support us we’re going to have a bad time

                    this is opposed to a regular communist nation (vietnam, soviet russia, north korea etc) where having a bad time was/is normal

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      If it becomes a thing capitalists could try to implement systems that make more brain dead women than would exist naturally, so that there are more babies to become workers. Look at for profit prisons and how we have more people in prison than any other country. If they want something they can pay to get it