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The world must end reliance on cheap labour or we're always going to have slums next to the factories that make our clothes. Can you have a population of 8 bil
by badcppdev 3y ago
The world must end reliance on cheap labour or we're always going to have slums next to the factories that make our clothes.
Can you have a population of 8 billion humans with something close to a modern lifestyle... we can try I guess
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- electric_mayhem 3y agoObligatory Neal Stephenson: “When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- nonrandomstring 3y agoSince AI can do three of those better now, I see a lot of pizza in our future.
- voisin 3y agoI would vote for this future.
- gosub100 3y agoI'm more concerned about the people in Canada being shafted out of entry-level jobs. Who do their government represent, Indians or Candians?
- goodSteveramos 3y agoThe paradox of globalization is that it benefits the ultra wealthy of every nation but only hurts the working classes of wealthy nations.