“what happens when sanitation workers go on strike? What would happen if all trash collection was automated?”

This is an interesting question and I’d love to come to a good answer that works for all, but can we also accept that we went from a world that had people manually light lamps around the city like 150 [1] years ago to the full electric lights. Do we then stop that progress now and keep people manually collecting garbage when a replacement tech is around the corner?

[1] mm more like 120 years. The last lamplighters strikes was close to 1907 in NYC

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beremaki an hour ago | parent [-]

> Do we then stop that progress now and keep people manually collecting garbage when a replacement tech is around the corner?

No we take the tech and socialize its control

	▲	pj_mukh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That’s the same thing as stopping it. If you “socialized” Edison’s electricity and gave the control to the lamplighters, we’d all be living under gas lamps now. There is zero reason for the lamplighters to negotiate any progress whatsoever.