• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That has forever been the fallacy.

    The poor won’t die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.

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      That’s true until it isn’t. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.

      The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.

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        3 days ago

        You still need loaders, drivers, retailers to get anything to the customer. A lot of rich ski and holiday towns can’t staff the stores and Cafe’s, because the employees can’t afford to pay rent in the same towns, so they face a similar issue…