Until enough of us say that we don’t care what they think, and we demand better.

And their decisions equate to: how can we employ the fewest number of people with the least benefits and make the most profit off what we’re selling?

But definitely don’t consider that under- or unemployed people don’t have the money to spend on making those profits happen.

I would rather work down the road at a bakery than drive to the next town to be an engineering apprentice.

Only one of them pays, however.

"We're too deep in the hole we've dug for ourselves. Just keep digging and hope we eventually come out the other side." That's what that logic effectively equates to: doing the same stupid thing and hoping it eventually works out for you.

The “””end goal””” would be people working half the time, earning half the money, and stuff costing half as much to make and half as much to purchase.

The issue is we have to force them to translate the manufacturing cost decrease in a price decrease, or it’s never going to happen.

A reduction in work hours is also a step forward until UBI is instated. If I make the same amount doing 4 or even 3 days of work in a week, while automation does the rest, that works for me. The idea is that people need to work less and make the same if not more. UBI or a reduction in work hours are both good paths forward. UBI being the ultimate goal.

If people are that poor they will just deautomate the machines in protest until UBI happens.