No I’m not catastrophising.
The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.
I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.
I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.
Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.
*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.
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What’s wrong with automation?
I’m a union auto worker and let me tell you, I’m more scared of automation taking my job with no social safety net than I am of industrial accidents.
And what’s the alternative? Stopping progress and keeping menial jobs on life support just to pay people a wage is ludicrous. Automation has been replacing jobs since watermills and oxen, it is a form of liberation. The current rate will probably cause a lot of upheaval yes, but it’s a necessary evil.
Great so you’re going to feed my kids and pay my mortgage then? What a tone deaf, braindead, out of touch response.
It’s not concerns, it’s fear. The problems are not automation or immigration. The problem is empoverishment.
People fear about automation and immigration because they’re sold the idea that they must work or die, but there isn’t work for everyone. The liberals love this idea because it enslaves people to their work. Fascists love these ideas because it gives them an enemy to fight for a culture war.
And here you have an alliance of fascists and liberals. Exactly like in the 30s.