A Boring Dystopia

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Amazon Accused of Hiding Worker's Death for a Week, Making Employees Keep Working as Corpse Lay on Floor (futurism.com)

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[–] webp@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If robots can do work for us, why have a monetary system at all?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

For rare collectibles like Willie Mays rookie cards. 🖖

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 months ago

Not all labor is manual labor. If the robots are doing the grunt labor, then society would transition to more of a service based economy (which is where the west is already heading).

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Scarcity still exists for some commodities (e.g. energy).