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The Jetsons:
George Jetson went to work everyday at Spacely Sprockets and pushed a button. A single button. That was his whole job. The whole businesses was automated to the point George did not have to do anything except sit and press the button.
And he made enough money in that job to support a family of 4 in a nice house, as the sole bread winner.
Imagine that: A future where the benefits of automation technology are not solely for the wealthy and business owners. Automation and AI making people's jobs easier, instead of simply replacing them. Businesses that employ people to do jobs that could be automated, but don't, because people need living wages regardless of how easy the work has become.
There was a joke I remember in the episode they bought Rosie, their maid-bot: Jane said she was exhausted by all the cooking and cleaning while simply pressing two buttons that said “cooking” and “cleaning”.
I also enjoy the conspiracy theory that Jetsons and Flintstones exist at the same time, but Jetsons are upper class and live in cities above the nuclear rubble, and mutant, talking, dinosaur adjacent monsters below.
The Jetsons meets the Flintstones proves that. I own dvd and remember it when I was kid. Apparently Leroy invited a time machine but he really didn't its just telporter to surface.
Nah in the movie it was a time machine, I do like the theory though.
He called it a time machine but I like the idea that he and his parents just didn't realize it isn't.
Fuck. Now I have that "meet the flintstones" song stuck in my head and have to rethink my childhood media consumption at the same time.
Thinking about it now... Rosie the Robot was presented to the viewer as a being that was basically sentient and fully self aware. In fact, she could and did fall in love at one point. Like... the family owned her. She was a possession. Was that slavery? Is the future depicted in "The Jetsons" a slave based one?
UBI is starting to sound more and more appealing as AI technology has surged.
Tbh, it was appealing to me the first time I heard of it. Its the most seamless way to transition from modern work society to post work society. It still has the same culture and incentive structure of what worked for society before, but removes the NEED to work in order to simply live
Given the large Star Trek and socialist communities on Lemmy, I'm surprised this sub isn't more active.
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Who’s to say there wasn’t a working class supporting their comfortable lifestyle, living on the ground, beneath the cloud-covered hi-rises?
So just give people free money instead of wasting resources
No. They don't deserve it and I will die in filth and poverty before I let someone have something they don't deserve!
Except billionaires. They get everything and deserve less than nothing.
The Jetsons lived in an apartment and George kept getting fired for stupid reasons. That very much resembles modern life where a lot of people can't afford a house and have no job security.
Thinking about it now... Rosie the Robot was presented to the viewer as a being that was basically sentient and fully self aware. In fact, she could and did fall in love at one point. Like... the family owned her. She was a possession. Was that slavery? Is the future depicted in "The Jetsons" a slave based one?