[babble-on]

The part of this that I think we lack a solution to is the jobs part. Most of us will or already are becoming superfluous in an economic sense.

However, we’ve only ever come up with one real way to distribute goods to individuals who don’t have stored wealth, and that’s via work.

“Them as works, eats,” they used to say but now the economy does not NEED for nearly as many people to work to produce enough food and shelter for all.

Socialism is one solution, just give stuff to everyone whether they work or not, but it fosters terrible qualities in human beings. Even when the economic value of working is meaningless, the moral value of HAVING to work is enormous.

[dfwgator]

Socialism is one solution, just give stuff to everyone whether they work or not, but it fosters terrible qualities in human beings. Even when the economic value of working is meaningless, the moral value of HAVING to work is enormous.

Idle hands are the Devil's Workshop.

[Mr. Douglas]

Socialism is one solution, just give stuff to everyone whether they work or not, but it fosters terrible qualities in human beings. Even when the economic value of working is meaningless, the moral value of HAVING to work is enormous.

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I agree. I remember as a kid in the 1960’s, I imagined a world where nobody had to work because of robotics. And in that utopia, everyone would get a living wage, but they could work to afford nicer things, travel, etc.

I realized just a couple of years ago that we actually live in that utopia. It’s really a dystopia. Those “living wage” people are called welfare recipients. Their neighborhoods are quite dangerous. They are in no way happy people.