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by 2019ideas
2691 days ago
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> Its called a life, and work is not the goal of it. This type of thinking needs to stop. You don't get to enjoy our lavish society without contributing. If you want food and a shack, you can already live this lifestyle for less than 5k/yr. Hanging out with your family, playing sports, and helping animals will not keep an economy moving. |
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An ever-growing number of folks in 'our' society (presuming Western technological) are making only symbolic contributions. Automation is rapidly overtaking jobs.
Understand what that means. It doesn't just mean unemployment/underemployment. It means nobody has to work to create what automation took over. An ever-increasing fraction of the 'lavish society' has no human cost burden at all.
So that knee-jerk thinking above is growing ever-more irrelevant and obsolete. That's pretty much the whole conversation here.