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> The world needs to focus on how we collectively become more efficient while working less / relaxing more. The world doesn't reward working less. More automat
by ssharp 11y ago
> The world needs to focus on how we collectively become more efficient while working less / relaxing more.
The world doesn't reward working less. More automation might lead to lower average work hours, but the reduction comes from people losing their jobs and not finding new ones.
So, yes, you get to work less, but you almost might go bankrupt, lose your house and car, and be reliant on government welfare, if you're "lucky" enough to live in country with a decent safety net.
- agentultra 11y agoNeed to change the reward structures. I don't think Max Weber ever fathomed a world where human labor was unnecessary and inefficient. Work is not rewarding if you can never have it. Still waiting for the new treatise.
- christophilus 11y agoI think he was saying that automating all the things is good, but we need to rethink the economic system that we currently have. Imagine the logical extreme of our current trajectory: a world in which robots/computers do everything that humans currently do. 100% automation, 0% employment. This should be a good thing, giving humans unprecedented leisure time and producing a huge cultural boom. The problem is that in the current economic system 0% employment means the world would be impoverished, except for the few that owned the robot/computer production systems.
- monort 11y agoMore automation means lower prices for everyone and less hours to work.