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The "job" as a foundation of modern life is the result of the industrialized revolution and, while it served its purposed, is something we need to abandon as qu
by brycehamrick 8y ago
The "job" as a foundation of modern life is the result of the industrialized revolution and, while it served its purposed, is something we need to abandon as quickly as possible. Corporations don't have a monopoly on economic value creation. We should be, as a government and society, encouraging independent tradesmen/women, entrepreneurship, and artisanry. If we can manage that, job loss due to automation is no longer an issue.
- DrNuke 8y agoJobs are a way to exert social control, though. The dystopian solution is to reopen gulags and labor camps to re-educate people. Oh, wait...
- cycrutchfield 8y agoYou realize that "cottage industry" is not necessarily an aspirational concept, right?
- nerdponx 8y agoWe can't manage it until we remove employment as the sole condition for access to basic services like healthcare. We also need to ensure that people are able to retrain themselves if/when their job becomes obsolete.
- Schwolop 8y agoThe rest of the world _has_ worked this first point out. The US is close enough to the only developed country that ties healthcare to employment. The second point is a given in the more socialised parts of Europe, and is a core tenet of most support programs for the involuntarily unemployed elsewhere. Which is to say; I don't get your point. Sounds like everywhere but the US could do this right now.
- grecy 8y ago> We can't manage it until we remove employment as the sole condition for access to basic services like healthcare Many countries don't have that limitation.