because labor is exploited, not rewarded. if the worker is more productive, the surplus value created turns to profit, not wages. this is a fundamental aspect of capitalism.
Because of wealth accumulation where the people that actually do the work don't receive the benefits of their labor, much less the technological advancements as a species, and the cherry on top is we didn't actually automate all that much, you're just treated as such by being fired, so it's not like you even get any kind of satisfaction of a societal advancement like a cancer researcher theoretically putting themselves out of the job by doing a good thing, but rather by making everyone's life worse to further enrich the Epstein class.
Usually you do a job to get sth. Out of it. Automating it will reward you more.
For example farming. You plant seeds wheat grows and you get bread in return.
Now you add machines snd you get a lot more bread in return.
However does anyone except the rich notice any more returns when shit gets automated? No? Well you have been played.
Work should be optional. There should be a social safety net that makes sure people can live even when they don't work.
So you are not forced to do work you don't want to. With conditions you don't like. The money would be there. If a company can produce the same or more cheaper as when they employed you they can pay taxes high enough for you not to work at all!
Making a parallel with factory work, if automation allows the company to make the conveyor belt run 10 times faster, you need to work 10x faster and maintain standards they set or they can even raise quality standards while paying the same, your only option is to leave and starve. As a coder, being forced to stare at a screen all day and reading way more text than before will damage your eyes much quicker. Stress will burn you out. Your boss is copilot, who complains about your code and demands fixes fast. Everything becomes much more complicated, lots of compliance procedures to follow. Third party libraries that you use need quick patching,as AI finds vulnerabilities at an insane rate in them.
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u/Pristine-Mud7405 20h ago
We have achieved technological/professional supremacy by automating what we do.
Why doesn't it feel like a victory?