Automation doesn’t destroy jobs; it merely replaces certain manual labor tasks to be maintenance tasks and, as Marx already said back in the day, the modernization of technology merely ups the disciplining of labor alongside it.
Because in western europe theres a growing trend of people (being forced to) start their own one-person legal entity and sell their labour under minimum wage and without benefits to others. Theres also a massive growing population of zero hour contract workers.
Both of these groups can work for zero hours a month, without being counted as unemployed. To be counted as unemployed in germany […]
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