Not trying to dissuade you, the project looks very cool, I just don't understand how this post fits in this specific community. Perfectly adequate to be in sepf-hosted though.
Forget what I said, after refreshing my memory on what the fediverse is, I understand I was wrong.
To everyone who will react to this with "good, the planet is fucked, don't bring more people into this mess" I sympathise with your reasoning and I would suggest you consider adoption to help those already brought into the mess.
To those who wish to have kids of their own, consider it too!
If you look into what the "Mondragón route" is, you'll understand the differences to the current system.
To sum it up, Mondragón is a federation of worker owned/controlled enterprises/cooperatives. Due to this innovative ownership model democracy is intertwined in all decisions in the companies. Therefore, Jim (workers) gets a real say on how automation is leveraged.
About the possible career change. Mondragón handles it quite gracefully in my opinion. They have internal recruitment that attempts to relocate "obsolete" workers to other parts of the federation, as to avoid severing work relations entirely. They also invested early on in internal capacity to teach themselves through their technical schools. This way the profit of the automation is paying for the education of the workers it replaced.
In my opinion, go the Mondragón route.
Bring democracy into the enterprise and allow those who work to control how they work. That way those who are being "automated" away can have a voice in what to do next.
Also, your vision of human capacity is very limiting. Why can't Jim learn new skills? Everyone does it, literally all the time. Even construction workers have domain knowledge on how to pour cement that they learnt from others.
If there is truly no capacity in that enterprise a social safety net might be the only viable option.
Isn't this fair use of copyrighted material? I know Japan is kinda special on the rules of copyright, but PETA is not based from there so why should they care about the guidelines?
What is illegal? Revealing your social media history?
Unless the intention is to dissuade compliance with authoritarian rules, it seems very weird and even then it stills looks cruel (to fine someone who might have not had any leverage at the time)
Sorry about that. I was using the wrong "definition" of fediverse, this project fits in perfectly here.