There were good slave masters during slavery and some happy slaves like you, does that imply that the institution of slavery was good and we should've continued with it? A better system is where the workplace is run democratically and all managers are elected by their peers. All leadership in both the government and productive enterprise should be democratic, not dictatorial. The fact that you have such a lack of a sense of solidarity and empathy for the working-class shows that you were brainwashed by your masters. Adam Smith the father of capitalism, in his book "The Wealth Of Nations", calls capitalists "masters" for a reason, because that's exactly what they are. He wrote:
What are the common wages of labor, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters (capitalists) to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine (organize, unite, form labor unions) in order to raise, and the latter (the masters/capitalists) in order to lower the wages of labor.
It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.
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You're comfortable being the head-slave, in an authoritarian system, hence your hostility towards your fellow employees who want to unionize in order to negotiate their terms of employment as a group, with more leverage and power.
You were likely getting paid way below what you were actually producing for your master, hence that is indeed exploitation, for the purpose of your master's profits. Now you may be comfortable being an employee (exploitee) employed by an authoritarian capitalist employer (exploiter), because as a conservative (especially if you're a bible believing Christian), you're fine with slavery, even your bible orders you to be a good slave. But for the rest of us who believe in democracy, both in government and in the workplace (the place where most people spend most of their waking hours), we don't tolerate the exploitation of human beings for a profit. You unfortunately apparently do, even if you and your children are the ones being exploited. You love "yo masta".
In the not-too-distant future, advanced automation, and artificial intelligence is going to eliminate wage-labor and it will become clear to everyone what system of production we have to adopt. Believe me, it won't be capitalism. We will enter into a post-capitalist, non-profit mode of production, in order to survive and meet our needs. The alternative to that is techno-feudalism, where the rich own all of the technology (the facilities/factories, land, robots, AI, autonomous machinery and vehicles. etc), and the working-class (94% of the population) is consigned to poverty and eventually the compost heap. Do you actually believe techno-feudalism and slavery is going to succeed? When technology takes millions of jobs (this is happening right now before our eyes), that's the end of capitalism and the beginning of the modern socialist age of production.
Yang is a wealthy CEO
UBI = Capitalism on life support. They know what the outcome is going to be when advanced technology and AI are introduced into the productive enterprise. If society fails to transition from for-profit production to a non-profit system of production where goods are produced to meet everyone's needs, millions of Americans will go hungry and the pitchforks will come out. An unprecedented level of extreme inequality and a form of techno-feudalism will be established in order to preserve the wealth and power of a small group of wealthy elites, at everyone else's expense (at the cost of people's lives). UBI is just a ploy, a process that leads the masses to the compost heap. The masters will eliminate the worthless peasants with pandemics, drugs, crime, incarceration, extreme poverty, war..etc.
That's the consequence of advanced automation and AI, without establishing a non-profit, democratic system of production. There's a name for that non-profit system, it's called "socialism". Why was Albert Einstein, one of the smartest people that ever lived, a socialist? He was a socialist because he recognized that it is the inevitable successor of capitalism. Capitalism replaced chattel slavery and feudalism, and in the future socialism will replace capitalism. It's the natural process of human progress and evolution. The transition will happen, either peacefully, through reform or through a violent revolution. I hope it's the former.
