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  • Asafum@feddit.nltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What will be this generation's "If you want a good job just go to college!" career advice?
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    13 hours ago

    We need to think about using technology to help people work less. Not just fatten profits.

    It’s such a hard topic to deal with because you have to tackle the concept of ownership.

    As it currently stands in capitalist economies the owner, as the title implies, owns the means to increase productivity that would enable people to work less, but since they are the owners they see it is morally repugnant to have other people who did “nothing extra” get “more” money as the math is essentially: less work, same pay = greater value, except you didn’t provide any greater value to them, the machine/technology that they own did.

    It’s a shitty situation for sure :(

  • Asafum@feddit.nltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What will be this generation's "If you want a good job just go to college!" career advice?
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    14 hours ago

    The downside to that is it is much harder to continue working as you age depending on the trade. Usually the “best” route there is to start early, learn what you can, and go independent eventually hiring other people to do the hard stuff you no longer can do.

    Also need to be careful specializing… I went super specific and well… Yeah… Ice cream refrigeration machines aren’t exactly ubiquitous. I should have stuck with residential HVAC but I hated crawling under houses and being on call all night :/

    I currently work in a factory (yeah I’m just chock full of bad decisions) and I can say from what I’ve gathered from my coworkers being a “machinist” isn’t so much of a viable trade anymore. Everyone pays like shit now.

  • Asafum@feddit.nltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Priorities
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    18 hours ago

    as that is money going to poor people instead of themselves

    You need to look no further than the GOP obsession with cutting government programs to back this up. The “money going to” is in fact taxes and so if government programs are cut Republicans can also further reduce taxation on themselves and the ultra wealthy without hurting the deficit as much. They couldn’t possibly care less about government assistance programs because they don’t need them, it’s just the “poors” that do and we all know the Republicans mindset on that: get good or die, loser. Let the church do charity, but don’t “force me” to care about you.

  • Asafum@feddit.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•do you think lemmy will ever be popular?
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    1 day ago

    I really don’t think so. The vast majority of internet users just stick with whatever simple thing that serves their need. Lemmy isn’t the most difficult thing, but if reddit already exists and is more popular then people won’t be leaving that for this if they haven’t already.

    The boost in people coming here last year was a “last straw” kind of deal from people using reddit who cared enough about not supporting their shit decisions, but by now that has died down and we’ve seen from recent articles that reddit “won” and they have a metric fuckton of users.

  • Asafum@feddit.nltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 yearsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah that was me too… I FINALLY got to the point where I could realistically start looking, got the pre-approval and everything just after COVID started… People had already starting WFH and moving away from where they worked and investment companies kept buying and now I’m still living in someone else’s garage because prices went through the roof pretty much as I was looking…

    Of course once you mention WFH everyone gets defensive and claims this was a trend, but those charts are the same everywhere. Houses in 2018-19 were often less than half of what they cost now…