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[–] jpreston2005 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, I love the self checkout. Also didn't they already show that rising costs everywhere WEREN'T from theft, but instead corporations artificially inflating their prices during the pandemic and then leaving it there?

Take away my self checkout, and I'll steal out of spite

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's fine if you have a few things and no one else is using them. These days, you go to the supermarket and you either wait in a long line for people to check out the stuff themselves or you wait on a long line for someone to do it for you. All they did was eliminate jobs.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All they did was eliminate jobs

That's awesome. Jobs suck. Nobody likes jobs. We should automate even more things so people don't have to do work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That's great once we've got a UBI or can ditch capitalism entirely, but until then it just means fewer jobs for those that need them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you in principle, but we still have money and bills to deal with. Which also suck, but we still need money for the bills and the nice things we want in life. So we need jobs. Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Humans survived for millions of years without jobs. I am doubtful that we actually need them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And we survived without money too, but in our society, most people need money. Lol