So, at work, I was thinking about automation

which, I understand that that header immediately makes me sound pretentious as hell. "I often think of high-level physics" type-beat. But nonetheless, I was thinking about it, and I think it's an interesting idea.

So, the jist is, manufacturing has been automated more and more in modern times as we know, which has been taking jobs and such. So, I've been thinking, wouldn't it be neat if shitty minimum wage, entry-level jobs could be automated so we can just shift the concept of "entry level" to jobs that people actually want to do. After all, if we shift the common perception of what "entry level" means, then we can make what jobs are available to people more enjoyable.

This would probably stop all those stupid times people just say "that's life, that's how it is" when we're talking about the society that WE created. like, it bothers me that people always seem to brush issues under the rug by just saying "that's just how it is". As if life has some sort of rulebook we need to play by. Of course, there's morals and all that, but other than that, we made up all the "rules" we need to play by. At the end of the day, we made the rules, so we have all the power in the world to change them.

In a perfect world, wouldn't machines do the monotonous jobs like cleaning stores and organizing shelves, while human beings are able to do the things they enjoy? People always seem so apprehensive about the idea of everyone being happy and doing what they want, always saying some shit like "someone has to do the shitty jobs" or "not everyone gets a happy ending", instead of trying to change that.

Expanding upon the idea of automation in retail jobs, what if this whole AI Art craze is a sort of algorithm training so we can end up with some AI that can correctly identify an object 10/10 times, so they can stock and organize stores, so then, instead of some ridiculous store with racks that teenagers have to clean and re-organize after the messy-ass adults mess everything up without remorse; we have a store where one can shop similar to online shopping, but at a location with the items, and the automation can automatically give the item to the consumer. And this doesn't knock out jobs in this field altogether, there still needs to be people designing the products, people maintaining the machines, people managing the business, etc., meaning, more fulfilling job opportunities as opposed to jobs that make people feel the opposite of fulfillment. And I don't mean unfulfilled, I mean a feeling of whatever fulfillment I did have being sucked away from me.

I hope some of this was coherent, it's 4am and I thought about this for a while