I get what you’re saying but it is unrealistic in this society. Many industries opt to replace their workers with automated systems. Perhaps this same level of greed has been redirected into newer unregulated ways.
Child labor is used all around the world still. Just have to loosen laws a bit and make people poor enough to accept low wages, then it will be (more) of a thing in the US too. Below-living wage is cheaper than automating for many tasks; doesn’t require the rich to risk as much capital either.
K, so pulling this thread, if children have no value as laborers in the future dystopia no one but the oligarchs wants, what would their for-profit role be? Societal larvae destined to be future laborers with adult human skills not easily automated? In the meantime, how would they ‘earn their keep’ so-to-speak?
Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?
I get what you’re saying but it is unrealistic in this society. Many industries opt to replace their workers with automated systems. Perhaps this same level of greed has been redirected into newer unregulated ways.
Child labor is used all around the world still. Just have to loosen laws a bit and make people poor enough to accept low wages, then it will be (more) of a thing in the US too. Below-living wage is cheaper than automating for many tasks; doesn’t require the rich to risk as much capital either.
I agree with that.
You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?
Now its time to compare several to the national total. You did say the US right?
K, so pulling this thread, if children have no value as laborers in the future dystopia no one but the oligarchs wants, what would their for-profit role be? Societal larvae destined to be future laborers with adult human skills not easily automated? In the meantime, how would they ‘earn their keep’ so-to-speak?
Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?