• Gwyntale@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Socialism: Drones take over peoples jobs -> These people work something else / everyone works less.

    Capitalism: Drones take over peoples jobs -> These people starve.

    In a socialist setting, the advent of better and better robots and drones would be a boon for society. Menial and transport jobs can be done by machines, while humans shift their work elsewhere and/or simply work less.

    In a capitalist setting, that’s not the case. Robots take over human work, not to free up those humans to do something else, but to raise profits for the owner of those robots. This leads to less and less jobs for people and since your worth and right to live is tied to your job in capitalism, this doesn’t bode well for society.

    Large scale automation would be great in a system, that tries to facilitate the best possible living conditions for its citizens with the least amount of work.

    Capitalism sadly isn’t interested in making the citizens work as little as possible. It’s interested in generating profit for the people at the top.