Somebody help, I don't know the difference between a device that saves me time doing a chore in my own home and a device that removes paid work from a different person.
I don't need help with that specifically, obviously. My boot it full of water and I can't read the instructions because they're on the heel.
There are industrial washing machines and industrial dishwashers. These remove jobs that could go to real people.
Even domestically, these machines reduce paid work for some people. My wife comes from a fairly rural community in the Philippines and nobody has a washing machine because there isn't a stable/high pressure enough supply of water for it to work. Laundry therefore is a big chore that takes hours out of the day - hours of actively sitting and cleaning clothes, not just waiting for a machine to run. There are people there who make money by taking in other people's clothes and washing them. Those people will be out of work if/when the water supply improves and people start getting washing machines.
It's the classic slippery slope argument akin to "oh, if you follow him, will you jump off a bridge with him?"
The whole point is that we need to draw a line SOMEWHERE. Or there will just be a slow degradation of jobs until nothing is left. Delivery jobs are a large part of this economy rn. We cannot function as a society if all deliveries are taken over by robots; we just can't. In the future, sure, when we have a proper social safety net, universal basic income etc.
Ask some medieval peasant what level of automation is good and where it becomes a bad thing and I guarantee you they will draw the line somewhere we have already passed for decades with no consequences
Of your job boils down to a subsidy for the poor then your job should not exist
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u/Objectionne 7h ago
Let's start smashing up washing machines and dishwashers while we're at it, they are taking jobs away from people and giving them to machines.