>they shouldn't be
Well thats not happening mr leppo.
>crypto-communists
im the exact opposite of a communist you hypercapitalist jewpuppet
>people will only leech if they have the opportunity to
I dont think you understand the nature of how society is kept in place right now, let me tell you.
The majority of people are getting ripped off, dramatically, by the elite. The elite however, smartly realize that the average person will take it if they dont make their lives too difficult, and so essentially 'bribe' them with welfare.
The people on it indeed only leech because they are able to. If they were not able to they would earn their money by revolting against the elite and cutting their fucking heads off. That would be a job well done and money earned through good, honest, work.
>for every machine introduced to do someone's job, at least one person will have to repair it
I see your emu overlords dont teach you proper arithmetic on (((school))) down there. If it took as much work to repair a machine as it did to do the actual work, there would be no point in automation. One person can repair many, many, machines, and one day that repair person will be a robot.
Complete automation is inevitable. Complete automation is a long, long, way off - but significant automation is around the corner.
Moreover, there aremany jobs that exist today which i like to call wellfare jobs. They are jobs that society maintains which could be eliminated, but society as a collective just doesnt want to lay that may people off.
Consider, if everyone whos job is to sit in front of a computer all day (and that is a LOT of people) just worked from home, which was possible decades ago and is certainly possible today, what that would do to the economy.
Thats that many new computers that wont need buying, since now each workers home computer is their work computer as well. Thats many office buildings that wont need constructing, thats roads that wont be worn by as heavy [cont]