And I'm not willing to let humanity placate to fucking idiots. Sorry, but learn to RTFM, or kill someone else on the road uninvolved with your mistakes.
FTFY.
- You wont need the space or restroom facilities for a crew.
- Without people Minimal HVAC will be required.
Minor quibble, but the fast food places and restaurants I've seen only have one set of bathrooms for both customers and staff, so you can't get rid of those. Similar issue with HVAC.
It's also not even that useful for those at the top. The post war years showed that when you have an economic system where people go to work every day to add to the pool of assets in a society, rather than fight each other over the assets that exist, everyone can literally live like a king.
It depends on their goal. If they want to objectively increase their standard of living over what it was previously, then maybe you're right. If they want to ensure that they stay at the top, then keeping everyone else below them is essential.
I find it quite unsettling that your go to is a fast food joint.
You find it unsettling that it's well known that fast food jobs pay poorly and are generally unpleasant? Why? Were you not aware of this?
Why are we thinking about giving people money they did not earn instead of fixing this situation so that meaningful job opportunities exist and we don't need this form of corporate welfare?
Right from the summary:
For the first time in the history of technology more jobs are destroyed than created. Technical progress means that more and more high-paying jobs will disappear and thus shrink the middle class.
Sure, I wouldn't mind an extra $2,500 every month. But is it truly an extra $2,500? If the taxes on my normal income will also go up by that $2,500, it's a wash.
This isn't how taxes work in the US. Look up "marginal tax rates".
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