[trisham]

Jobs, on the other hand, are simply tasks that need to be performed. Eliminate a job, and you free up people to perform other tasks. Fewer welders and shippers equals more potential computer coders and aerobics instructors. Rather than cling to jobs we no longer require, we should shed them, freeing up people to perform other tasks.

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This works if people all have the same intelligence, talent and ability. In fact, it's clear that they don't. What about the bell curve?

[17th Miss Regt]

This works if people all have the same intelligence, talent and ability. In fact, it's clear that they don't. What about the bell curve?

Let those on the lower end of the bell curve identify as people on the upper end. Then we have a situation where no one is on the lower end and everybody is about equally intelligent. And the problem you mention goes away so everyone can be a computer scientist or physicist or mathematician!