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[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It starts with a basic idea like all people should have access to food, clean drinking water, shelter, healthcare, and a basic minimum quality of life. For most people, access to these things are currently granted by working and earning a wage.

Wealth and resources are finite. As a company generates profits and it gets hoarded by a minority of people, that means there are less and less resources every single day for the rest of the population.

As companies implement more automation, there are fewer jobs. With fewer jobs, that means there are fewer people who can afford the basic necessities of life. As companies introduce technology which can work faster than humans, it devalues a humans value to companies meaning less pay for employees, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck as it is.

Furthermore, with these reductions in cost to produce a product through automation and robotics we do not see a related decrease in consumer prices.

In short, a person earns less while prices of goods continue to rise. The quality of life of the vast majority of the populace is continually going down.

Not everyone can be a CEO, executive, or high earner. It's just a physical impossibility. In addition, these same people weild disproportionate power in the legislature. They are able to manipulate the rules that increase the barrier of entry into a business as well as manipulate markets to prevent my goods from generating a significant profit, if they so desires.

So while I do not feel entitled to what they produce, finding land and starting a farm would not secure those basic necessities of life and the opportunities to do so decrease daily.

this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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