How can anyone think that economic growth can ever be zero?
There are production lines producing capital goods.
Next year there will be more cars, fridges, computers etc. than last year.
These can be used to make people more productive than last year.
A society with a cars, fridges, lightbulbs etc. is more productive and more prosperous than one without these.
>but you only need so many cars and fridges
Many cars are shitboxes. When there are enough shitboxes we can replace them with higher value cars and so on.
Many increases in well-being are non-monetary as well.
More time off. Cleaner air. Faster internet. Decentralized infrastructure. Working from home.
So what is the argument that there is no increase in well-being or even a decrease?
It seems only an imbalanced distribution of resources could stop the population at large from becoming more prosperous
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>As in FACTORY Assembly Lines or actual SELF REPLICATION?!
Again with you trying to downplay this with your ignorant strawman.
BTW, did you know that when you see humans in assembly lines, that they're usually there as per union rules? When shit got automated, the union worked real hard to keep a single person somewhere along the line to do some menial task, like rotating a bread pan at the end. So 20 workers got replaced, except for that one guy who the president of the union owed a favor to.
>we're a part of a GLOBAL society, and the United States can't afford withdrawing from the world and turtling up just because CHANGE SCARY!!!
What a convincing argument you're making infavor for the death of the middle and lower class, because corporations gotta bring their profits up every quarter AND because what will the REST of the world thing? Oh gosh, to be socially shamed by the global community!
Again, you're making all this shit up to avoid telling me what dock workers, programmers, journalists, accountants, warehouse workers, burger artisans, writers, artists, soldiers, delivery drivers, should do because they're losing their jobs to robots/ai.
>b-but if their jobs aren't replaced now they never will be because technology gets worse over time!
retard
>A Butlerian jihad isn't going to help!
>Luddite Command Economy.
You retards sure love fallacies, because you can't actually make an factual logic to back up what you say. Might as well be telling me the government shouldn't have created safety laws to make work places not-dangerous and companies should never give their employees health insurance/other benefits, because it affects their bottom line.
Using robots/ai/overseas production is only for the sake of lowering costs for a company. Again, there's literally zero benefits to the consumer, because we never got any savings in the past from that (or it's so rare i think it's zero). Again, it's only a DETRIMENT to society.
>As in FACTORY Assembly Lines or actual SELF REPLICATION?!
Again with you trying to downplay this with your ignorant strawman.
BTW, did you know that when you see humans in assembly lines, that they're usually there as per union rules? When shit got automated, the union worked real hard to keep a single person somewhere along the line to do some menial task, like rotating a bread pan at the end. So 20 workers got replaced, except for that one guy who the president of the union owed a favor to.
>we're a part of a GLOBAL society, and the United States can't afford withdrawing from the world and turtling up just because CHANGE SCARY!!!
What a convincing argument you're making infavor for the death of the middle and lower class, because corporations gotta bring their profits up every quarter AND because what will the REST of the world thing? Oh gosh, to be socially shamed by the global community!
Again, you're making all this shit up to avoid telling me what dock workers, programmers, journalists, accountants, warehouse workers, burger artisans, writers, artists, soldiers, delivery drivers, should do because they're losing their jobs to robots/ai.
>b-but if their jobs aren't replaced now they never will be because technology gets worse over time!
retard
>A Butlerian jihad isn't going to help!
>Luddite Command Economy.
You retards sure love fallacies, because you can't actually make an factual logic to back up what you say. Might as well be telling me the government shouldn't have created safety laws to make work places not-dangerous and companies should never give their employees health insurance/other benefits, because it affects their bottom line.
Using robots/ai/overseas production is only for the sake of lowering costs for a company. Again, there's literally zero benefits to the consumer, because we never got any savings in the past from that (or it's so rare i think it's zero). Again, it's only a DETRIMENT to society.
Most blue collar jobs already got replaced by robots decades ago lol.