[Sir Napsalot]

Thanks for a real good discussion thread.

>>> Both liberals and conservatives don't like to discuss these things, because neither the free market nor government intervention is really capable of dealing with them effectively.

That is true.

Eventually though, for those idled and under-demanded turned into malcontents. Then a period of bloodshed breaks out, with lots of human sufferings, it doesn't matter if you are affluent or not. Sort of like a society self-correction. And then the cycle repeats.

[Sherman Logan]

We don’t know if this is a cycle or not, because it hasn’t happened before. The primary driving force is automation and cybernetics, and this hasn’t been a factor before the last few decades.

A problem here is that the rate of cybernetic change is increasing at an exponential rate. Which implies that resultant changes in society will do the same.

[central_va]

Eventually though, for those idled and under-demanded turned into malcontents

There are four categories of people:

1. Highly Capable and Highly motivated
2. Highly Capable and unmotivated
3. Low Capability and Highly motivated
4. Low Capability and unmotivated

Group one is tiny, perhaps only 5% of the population. Group two is also small 10% of the population. Group three is large maybe 30% of the population. Group four is very large 55% of the population.