• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    I mean yeah, it would/could just be the inverse of what millenials/zoomers grew up with: ‘you have to go to college learn a skilled trade if you want to have a decent living!’

    Hard to forecast precisely how strong the effect would be, but absolutely yeah, if a bunch of people flood into a specific category of labor… they will on aggregate depress their own wages.

    … This is why the luddites smashed things.

    Partially because the machines actually produced inferior output products, mostly because their proliferation caused mass unemployment/immiseration.

    A society that wants to technologically progress must also socially progress, otherwise, you’re just building a tinder box.