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Showing Original Post only (View all)This is the future. It doesn't include jobs for humans. [View all]
This is real, and it is happening. A lot of people on both sides of the aisle don't want to believe it's true, for their own ideological reasons. The Right has a vested interest in unregulated capitalism continuing to provide a stable basis for economic life and magically "creating" jobs from nowhere. Much of the Left has a vested interest in organizing around labor--with very good reason, of course. But the idea that human dignity and self-identity and worth has to come from having a "job" is going to be an antiquated notion within our lifetimes, and increasingly problematic just within the next couple of decades.
The future will belong to the political faction that can anticipate and deal with the inevitability of this transition. Libertarianism certainly doesn't have any answers for it. Will Democrats take the initiative to put the needed policies in place? That's an open question--and it depends largely on people like you and me to get involved on the inside and make that happen.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-is-future-it-doesnt-include-jobs.html
The future will belong to the political faction that can anticipate and deal with the inevitability of this transition. Libertarianism certainly doesn't have any answers for it. Will Democrats take the initiative to put the needed policies in place? That's an open question--and it depends largely on people like you and me to get involved on the inside and make that happen.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-is-future-it-doesnt-include-jobs.html
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Exactly. With a great deal of permanently-unemployed people they could riot, loot, etc.
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#31
Exactly! We certainly are not even close, but that's what it will be ... the road getting there
RKP5637
Aug 2014
#52
Here's three almost forgotten words guaranteed to drive the right winger in your life insane...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#55
Very few of us "really read" outside our choice of ideological frameworks very often.
GliderGuider
Aug 2014
#67
I understand about a model where humans do not have to work to earn resources.
djean111
Aug 2014
#20
It may be that we can engineer a guerilla-automated-capital-production campaign.
DireStrike
Aug 2014
#47
I think a GNI would be an excellent idea--but agree that it would be diffiicult, if not impossible,
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#35
Pretty much every "thing" is already manufactured in a factory, which takes energy.
DireStrike
Aug 2014
#49
Republicans will be lost now that they wont be able to say. Get a JOB you lazy bum!
ErikJ
Aug 2014
#25
We saw this coming decades ago. In some of my economics classes we discussed a jobless society.
RKP5637
Aug 2014
#51
I think this is coming, but the effect so far is not enough to explain current employment problems
Silent3
Aug 2014
#79
The only reason for the very existence of most of us is that the Elite need labor grunts
johnlucas
Aug 2014
#80