I visited a small business that does party supplies today. Most of their stuff is made with paper, plastic, rubber, and glue, in various combinations.
I observed that almost all of the customers were a father with several daughters, or a mother and aunt with several daughters.
When I asked the business owner about this, she confirmed that almost 100% of her customers are female. It’s girls and women who want these type of party decorations.
Thoughts?
Well yeah, the achievements of the Soviet Union wouldn’t have been possible without automation. Capitalism, as you said, uses automation in its schemes to generate superprofits, rather than to benefit the laborers or decrease waste in the system.