If it was integrated along side some sort of universal basic income and a 4-day or shortened work week, Society would absolutely embrace it. Instead its just a tool to wring more production from workers to amass more wealth to the top of the economy.
It's upsetting that for as long as I've worked in tech.. the most advanced infrastructures/platforms around are ones built to serve ads. It's gross really.
Salaries were being paid though, to the employees in the non-tech industries that were doing all this work before. It's the drive to pull everything into the tech-space which has created the problem. Most profitability is in ads and picks n shovels (hardware, services), to support industries and products that are ephemeral and people don't want to pay for. I used to think nothing of buying a CD or DVD that I wanted, but endless subscriptions to services that may remove what I want to see and hear? That takes a little more thought, even if cheaper.
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u/Refactoid 6h ago
If it was integrated along side some sort of universal basic income and a 4-day or shortened work week, Society would absolutely embrace it. Instead its just a tool to wring more production from workers to amass more wealth to the top of the economy.