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Funny how automation is only a problem because workers don't own much of anything they create. Meaning, if I owned my business then automating myself away would be a dream! But for most people, automating yourself away means a complete loss of income.

I'm sure there's an economic lesson, here, our country will completely ignore.

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There's nothing preventing people from creating employee-owned co-ops. In fact there are some large and successful ones, like WinCo.

We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory, and more especially we learned lessons from the mountains of skulls those countries left behind.

> We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory…

You absolutely know that’s not what I’m talking about.

When wealth is siloed, workers are less able to advocate for themselves with risking their livelihood.

Workers at a worker cooperative would similarly resist automation out of the fear of machines getting personhood thereby diluting the existing ownerships.

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