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by stock_toaster
4007 days ago
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I would love to see a return to investing in and updating some of the physical infrastructure that has degraded over time. In the USA there are a huge amounts of bridges that need updating/repairing, dams needing repair (or removal), roads needing repair, dilapidated school buildings needing updating (as well as energy efficiency updates), etc. There seems like TONS of work to be done to refresh our aging physical infrastructure. |
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The problem isn't that there's no useful work; it's that the genius of the current economic system - the one where it's every individual for themselves, and there's no such thing as society - is incredibly bad at deciding what needs to be done to make the future better for everyone.
So education at all levels is mediocre, infrastructure is deliberately crippled for profit, there's no systematic planning for the future at all - and people in work are still spending huge amounts of time on essentially pointless activities.
It's an organisational and political problem, not a technological one.
Actually it's more of a psychological problem. Getting humans to learn deferred gratification as a species turns out to be exceptionally hard.