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No I’m not catastrophising.

The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.

Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.

I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.

I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.

Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.

*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a union auto worker and let me tell you, I'm more scared of automation taking my job with no social safety net than I am of industrial accidents.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And what's the alternative? Stopping progress and keeping menial jobs on life support just to pay people a wage is ludicrous. Automation has been replacing jobs since watermills and oxen, it is a form of liberation. The current rate will probably cause a lot of upheaval yes, but it's a necessary evil.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You missed the part of a social safety net. Many countries that have one have it barely functioning thanks to decades upon decades of cuts and then you have the USA which is practically third world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I did not. That's what I alluded to in my last sentence. But I believe the bigger picture is more important and that automation is a step towards getting out of consumerism, exponential growth and job creation just to keep the bar moving, which all ties in to why we're in this situation in the first place. It allows us to reevaluate what's important in life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Great so you're going to feed my kids and pay my mortgage then? What a tone deaf, braindead, out of touch response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Disruption is a necessary evil. Letting the cost fall on the people whose jobs are eliminated is a choice our leaders make.