cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552
Just capitalism doing its thing
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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What does this have to do with capitalism?
Capitalists are freaking out over the declining birthrate because anyone with a brainstem knows "AI" and robots won't replace human workers for a long time, and the machine is hungry.
Lol. What? Who? Which "capitalists"?
I swear, Lemmy is sometimes just as bad as the far right talking about "antifa".
McDonalds threatened to replace their employees with machines, and when they tried it cost them millions....
"15 an hour? Meet your replacement!" was nothing but a scare tactic, if machines were viable they'd already be in use.
I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India
They already have robots taking orders and payments, I think the last thing that will be automated in Maccas will be burger assembly
It seems like its just ethno-nationalists freaking out. Capitalists have been tackling this problem with immigration for a long time.
Immigration is going to stop working as developing countries develop
In about 80 years global population growth should finish leveling out, at which point immigration will become a more difficult strategy for all but the most popular destinations. In the meantime, development only seems to be a barrier for importing huge numbers of low skilled labor, and thats mostly because many of the jobs were exported directly to them instead. A more developed globe has actually been a boon for anyone looking to import skilled labor.
Don’t forget AI and automation.
can’t wait for the socialists to be out on the streets when other peoples money runs out
If "other people's money" ever ran out we wouldn't have billionaires.
Please open a book. Remember: it only counts if it contains more sentences than pictures.
ive read more than you
Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64373950?ref=hir.harvard.edu
Famously socialist japan
Oh the hilarity! Someone on a French instance stepping in. 😁
Maybe this is more relatable to you:
France pension reforms: Macron signs pension age rise to 64 into law https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65279818
And you are the loudest protestors as well! Thank you for very likely personally proving my point (IRL as well!)
Why are you linking all these imperialist nations with strong ties to capital and industry? I've never seen someone kick their own ass so hard. Most nations are capitalist nations. The globe is factually dominated by capitalist interests. Congrats, your ideology already won.
you have a basic understanding that a country doesn’t have to be full blown aids communist to have socialist elements right?
capitalists aka normal people who aren’t broke uni students are worried about the declining birthrate because people like you and me will get old and need support, if there is not enough people to support us we’re going to have a bad time
this is opposed to a regular communist nation (vietnam, soviet russia, north korea etc) where having a bad time was/is normal
North Korea? The Totalitarian Hereditary Dictatorship? Thats communism?
Vietnam's own Wikipedia:
Soviet Union also turned into a Totalitarian Dictatorship pretty quickly. The key ingredient that fucks all of these up is centralization. Communism is supposed to be decentralized. The Soviet Union was extremely centralized. Also, I'm not even a communist. I dont believe in hierarchies.
congrats you’ve learned why communism sucks 😅
Wait until you learn who props the fascists up when the unions get too uppity.
Go touch grass and do not reply.
Capitalism is when bad stuff
If it becomes a thing capitalists could try to implement systems that make more brain dead women than would exist naturally, so that there are more babies to become workers. Look at for profit prisons and how we have more people in prison than any other country. If they want something they can pay to get it
But this came out of a public university in Colombia. Nobody ever suggested doing it for profit.
More babies = more future workers = $$$
Same logic for communism too.