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Ahhh yes. In capitalism, if you create a machine that can replace say, 10 people, you don't give them 1/10 of the work. You fire them and maybe hire someone to operate it.
Machines and human workers can coexist. They don't have to replace them.
Edit: Of course they should replace them, but only after we get good living conditions for unemployed people, which are currently non-existent.
They should replace them. What really needs undoing is this imbecilic idea that only workers deserve to live comfortably.
I wish the bar was at living comfortably. As it stands it feels like the average person doesn't think non-workers deserve to live :/