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To: Wuli

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Every jump in tech lowers the amount of work necessary to keep society at a certain comfort level (generally higher than previous). Yes this wave will probably be very destructive to jobs, but that can be a good thing if we figure out how to work with it. It really depends on how we adjust to the concept of quite simply not needing the majority of people to do any kind of work.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 10:35:07 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: discostu

“It really depends on how we adjust to the concept of quite simply not needing the majority of people to do any kind of work.”

Enforced sloth does not a civil human society make, unless the society you envision is, in time, the one the lead character in H.G.Wells ‘Time Machine’ finds at the last point in history he reaches.


10 posted on 02/11/2015 11:20:52 AM PST by Wuli
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