We’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys. Isn’t it?

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So many people seem to genuinely think they shouldn’t need to pay rent or work. Or that their employer should pay for their commute.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      With how unnecessary it is sometimes to be in the office with teleworking and losing my time commuting, that would be a way for employers to think twice before asking someone to come in, and give some kind of compensation to those who can’t work from home.

    • darq@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I mean. Both of those things seem like pretty reasonable positions to discuss. They way you write that seems to imply that rent and work are simply facts of life, but they don’t have to be. Or at the very least, they could look a lot different to how they do now.

      Rent is an economic concept that doesn’t have to exist. In fact it’s not hard to make the economic argument that it should not exist. Rent-seeking is generally considered a bad thing, because it removes value from a system.

      Work is harder to get away from. But there’s no reason work has to look like how employment does today. And there’s a productive discussion around how much work is reasonable, especially as automation continues to advance.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Personally I don’t think that companies should be responsible for taking care of people… because that’s the governments responsibility. We are rapidly approaching a situation where people will be automated out of work faster than we can invent new arbitrary things for them to do. UBI is inevitable it’s just a question of when and how