• Mango@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Honestly why else keep wages low and people occupied with busy work? It’s a social control structure. We’re not improving anything substantial.

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      9 months ago

      You think corporations keep people on doing busywork just for social control? They can and will fire every single one of them the second that job is automatable. They want control over their workers, but they’d rather pay for a robot to do it instead if they can. Robots don’t cost them payroll tax.

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        9 months ago

        Or that’s their excuse while they’re simply making life difficult for their opposition.