Is it an insult to human dignity? Let’s go through the thought process.

Commodities are used in an enterprise. Some of the commodities are labor. That labor commodity does work. Involving automation. Eventually (so we are told) those labor commodities manage to automate some forms of labor. Making those other labor commodities redundant.

The labor commodities are discarded. Because why (sigh) use a cart when you now have a car? And you don’t even own a horse.

All of the above is presumably not an insult to human dignity. No. The insult to human dignity is being “kept busy” instead of letting billionaires hoard automation made through human labor.

Of course the real solution is not busywork. But the part about busywork was not on the top of my mind with regards to dignity in this context.

> Personally, unless the alternative is literally starving,

To put a fine point on it, yeah? Ultimately.