Yeah that's the point of technology. To free us from slavery. You're demanding slavery back there.
See my comment about basic income earlier. The future is going to be different. There's not enough jobs for everyone. And that should be fine. But you've bought into the stigma around it.
No, quite the opposite. I understand that most people have a fundamental desire to be productive at something. The problem is the age-old one of those who have
not being willing to pay a living wage for work they believe is "beneath them".
We used to have actual supply & demand applicable to skills. Now we have only menial labor getting paid less than poverty wages and you can't get out of that unless you're willing to mortgage your entire life for ultra-specialized skills that may or may not even have value by the time you're finished getting that education/training.
The problem is not the machines replacing people; it's the machine that makes people into machines or worse, cogs in a machine that may or may not keep working for a lifetime.
med's employment with IBM is the perfect example. Highly specialized knowledge, that was made obsolete by the machine and not given even a chance to retrain for the new knowledge.
We don't need more machines replacing people and free money. We need to flip the pyramid scheme we've turned our economy into upside-down, so that it benefits the many rather than the few again. This half-century experiment with supply-side economics is an abject failure by any metric.
Everybody is good at something. There is more than enough work that needs to be done to keep people doing it, and in most cases, better than a one-size-fits-all machine that doesn't really fit anything, which is the way the corporate business model always pushes things.
We just need to get away from the idea that it's okay to allow the big machine to collect all the money for the benefit of the very few while not paying a living wage to anybody but a select few who are willing & able to sell their souls to that machine.
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