It’s depressing that bulls**t like this is still allowed to go unchallenged. When in the history of capitalism do companies, out of the goodness of their heart, find better paying jobs for workers they don’t need any more?
The only way CEOs call sell this shiny happy future of jobs being automated away, is to be allowed to get away with lies like this. It’s long past the point our politics deals with the reality of automation by AI/robots. It’s already happening, and it’s only going to accelerate.
Humanoid robots will take over factory jobs within 5 years, Xiaomi CEO says
if robotics fuck up employment in China i promise you something is gonna happen other than “all the workers left out on the streets” and it’s not going to be out of “the kindness” of any company
the rest of us are fucked, but China’s been responsible for all serious gains against poverty globally for the last like 30 fucking years for a reason, turns out subordinating capital to an ideologically committed communist party means you don’t have to rely on neoliberal dogma to translate economic profits into benefits for working peoples’ lives