The problem under our current system is that when a job is automated away, the only two options are dig/fill a pointless hole, or let the jobless starve. Not every worker will be re-trainable for a new job that isn't hole-related, and eventually all human jobs will be hole jobs. You can't morally allow unchecked automation while ignoring that both the hole-job and starvation "solutions" suck.
Not all bosses are abusive assholes
Capitalism is extracting the excess value from other people's labor without the ownership class doing commensurate work. Management is just a tiered proxy for this. So, although many bosses can be "nice" and have better soft skills to acclimate their underlings to the situation with more ease... the system itself is still one of exploitation. There were slavers who were much less brutal than others, perhaps even "kind" in a sense, but in the end there is no ethical master. The problem to examine is the system, not necessarily the individuals in the system, because you'll always be able to cherry pick exceptions.
Tried learning JavaScript. Failed at that. I am the Charlie Brown of languages.
Get out of here with your parroting of "iphone benuzeual 100 bajillion" nonsense. Everyone's heard it before, and your delivery makes you even worse at it than the near-entirety of the other disingenuous prats here. Come back from your at-will-fireable job, from your rented bedroom, when you have something approaching an original thought on capitalism. Til then, go back to paying your landlord with the money you made while making someone else even richer.
Idealist? Realist? This man has never been anything other than an opportunist... one attuned to exploit others' idealism, particularly slashdot-libertarian crypto bro types who believe technology+greed can solve all of society's ills. All the while, this plastic faced MFer has built a fortune whose cornerstone was grifting taxpayer dollars
Heard that the next Space Shuttle is supposed to carry several Guernsey cows? It's gonna be the herd shot 'round the world.