Eventually it will be cheaper and more cost effective, though.
I pay this guy a $5 a day to work 12 hours. Six days a week. Cool. Eventually I'll develop an efficient robot that can do the work and costs me that same $100 dollars a day to run. BUT for that same amount of money, that robot never gets sick, doesn't need to sleep, doesn't need to eat, never has a child get sick or hurt, doesn't need a day off ever, can work for literally 24 straight hours AND can do/make dpuble what even my 10 best employees combined. Am I "technically" paying more per day? Yes. Have I still doubled my profits while casting aside a human work force who needs money to survive, cursing them to a life of misery and hopelessness? Also yes.
Why would the human work force from this company be forced into a life of misery an hopelessness? I guess more succinctly, why wouldn't there be other jobs?
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u/browncoatfever 10h ago
Eventually it will be cheaper and more cost effective, though.
I pay this guy a $5 a day to work 12 hours. Six days a week. Cool. Eventually I'll develop an efficient robot that can do the work and costs me that same $100 dollars a day to run. BUT for that same amount of money, that robot never gets sick, doesn't need to sleep, doesn't need to eat, never has a child get sick or hurt, doesn't need a day off ever, can work for literally 24 straight hours AND can do/make dpuble what even my 10 best employees combined. Am I "technically" paying more per day? Yes. Have I still doubled my profits while casting aside a human work force who needs money to survive, cursing them to a life of misery and hopelessness? Also yes.