Yeah, dad being a software engineer doesn't hurt

Where the oil companies pay a dividend to the citizens rather than higher taxes

Okay, so first, so if the government is in such little need of taxes that they are actually giving tax money to the citizenry, why don't they just tax the citizens at 0% and make the companies pay for everything instead of UBI?

Of course current pricing models will completely collapse when wages are eliminated

maybe oil companies could directly subsidize gas prices

or is that too short a circuit

U are assuming that if a company CAN eliminate a job in place of automation, they will

Why did Ford begin paying his workers a higher wage?

If its a net financial benefit, yes

corporations are machines, we created them to fulfil one purpose, create wealth

It might of not been ford, I am dumb, general motors,

for good or ill, that's what they'll do

because General Motors is on thin fucking ice after the.... fuck, was it the first or second recession

Who did Trump pardon that's supposedly a war criminal?

whichever one was during Obama's first term

Idk, my point here is that the owner of general motors began paying his workers a far higher wage because he needed people to be able to buy his cars

off the top of my head I'd guess the Gallagher case

Im speaking of the past, like in the 20's

Oh yeah, that Manning dude.

well no fucking shit, in the 20s you had basic bitch manual operated machines

fast food is def gonna keep automating as min wage increases

oh the kid who reported on civi killings from US military drone strikes?

Oil companies are already lowering gas prices. Indirectly. The shale revolution has altered the entire crack chain so lite ends (like gas) have become cheaper because shale produces more of them.

Corporations won't automate all our jobs away if it leaves the citizenry with no income to spend on their goods

electronic computation was a non-ambulatory swimming sperm is someone's brain testicles

you assume corporations have any forethought @calman21

they do

corporations are run by people, and people aren't machines

You mean the automotive industry that automated away their assembly line?

You don't become a successful megacorp without taking the long view. That said, they are by no means immune to short-term impulsiveness.

people are the cogs in the corporate machine, they know their overall mission. create wealth

for good or ill

what about corporations that make millions doing immoral practices? Like Nestle and funding slavery in cocoa fields

New Coke was one example.

They are taking the long view, Tea. They're just being very very shitty about it.

We automated away several million manufacturing jobs

publicly owned and traded corps do not care about consequences

Thats part of WHY trump was elected

tbh generations don't care about consequences. "Won't affect me" is what I hear a lot of people state

"I won't be alive when it ruins the Earth"

I need to see more substantive proof that we automated our jobs away than andrew yang stating such, he is the only person I have seen who says that; it makes more sense to me that we have lost factory work to China because they have been undercutting our labor costs with their slave labor