U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.
So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to "new model" the old model.
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I'm no fan of Lutnick, but equating a lifelong factory job repairing robots to indentured servitude is nutty.
Saying three generations will be factory-bound is what's nutty. I don't care what you call it.
"There's been too much upward mobility in class in the last 100 years. You people need to know your place in society as the modern version of drudge workers. You'll be doing this same work for your entire life, and you'll produce children that will do your work when you die, and they'll produce children to do the work when they die. This is perfection in society where your entire bloodline will stay in your level in life for the entirety. We, your betters, will maintain the level of aristocracy and lead this nation and assume its wealth." - Lutnick probably
It IS indentured servitude, if the pay is just enough to keep you alive but little else. Especially since the corporations making the robots also have an effective monopoly on all the other goods and services, or they're damn near close to it.
Uncritically repeating the lie that they're going to create tons of robot repair jobs
This is why, when you say you're not a fan, I don't believe you.
Holy fuck, I read the article and he really is trying to claim that. Replace a factory full of jobs with one or two robot techs, and “everyone” can get such a job? Does he not math?
Those that can't find jobs are just supposed to die in the gutter. Literally the philosophy.