On: Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)

[newsgremlin]

And then they can hire their own employees...who proceed to automate their own jobs.

So nothing has changed and nothing is fixed.

[edanm → newsgremlin]

I mean, if we could automate all jobs, then wouldn't we reach a pretty great end goal of no one having to work anymore? What is left to be fixed?

[dfxm12 → edanm]

What is left to be fixed?

How people who don't own the means of production reap benefits from it

[chii → dfxm12]

They would cease to exist due to starvation - that's the reality under capitalism.