23-12-2013, 05:35 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:It is an interesting phenonema. Clearly there are not going to be enough jobs to go around. And because jobs have been traditionally linked ot income there will not be enough money to go around. Some things got to give. However, as we see, work is not the only source of income so perhaps it is better to look at 'money' who gets it an why as opposed to the technology. Though much technological invention has been to eliminate jobs to maximise profit for the 'owners' of capital it is also true that many jobs are dangerous, repetitive and boring so to have a machine to do them is not all bad. In an enlightened and engaged society the reduction of these dangerous or boring jobs would be welcomed as a liberating thing and a social improvement. How ever that is not our society right now and I see things getting much worse before they get better. A universal wage is a possible start for change.
Another way to look at it: in a world in which there will be 'too many useless mouths,' there well have to be a final solution to that problem. Why waste that wonderful technology on those who are ultimately takers and always will be?
Sadly, this is the direction the world is heading.
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