Comment by Sahra Wagenknecht

It is a popular misconception to believe that technological development destroys jobs. The organization of work is a social matter. If, thanks to modern machines, we need less time to produce food and other goods, then that opens up attractive perspectives: people could work five instead of eight hours a day for the same pay. There is also a huge demand for qualified workers in education and health. It is due to capitalism that this demand is not met and that technological progress contributes to people becoming unemployed. Ultimately, the central struggle is to shorten overall working time: when, thanks to automation and digitization, labor productivity in a society increases, this should lead to more leisure and freedom for everyone.