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gametorch | 3 months ago

Yes, and this dichotomy has been analyzed by political and economic theorists for centuries and everyone except autocrats and slave owners has agreed that the conditions surrounding the "work_output : labor_cost" jobs you describe are a huge miscarriage of justice and ought to be discarded with the past. Whether that is predicted to occur via bloody revolution or capitalist accelerationism is a matter of your particular economic and philosophical taste. But every ethical human being says we shouldn't treat people like that.

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ethbr1|3 months ago

Not treating people like that requires a fundamental move away from capitalist primacy in the US.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you're expecting it to be corporation-initiated.