the way automation was supposed to work was that you would keep the workers and just add machines. this would make the worker's life easier. he would have still have a job so he would be able to buy shit. he would be healthier and have more free time. goods could be produced easier and cheaper so the standard of living for everyone would rise. but instead, capitalists decided to just get rid of the workers and pocket the savings for themselves. this lead to a richer elite class (billionaires) and a poorer everyone else, with collapsing standards-of-living and poor health. we could have had a utopia.
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