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Progress in the software industry is tightly coupled to the advancement of human technology. I don't mind personally being made redundant in the face of progres

Progress in the software industry is tightly coupled to the advancement of human technology. I don't mind personally being made redundant in the face of progress. It's going to happen to a lot of other professions within the next 50 years as well.

52-6F-62 8y ago
I think this is a thought worth discussing. It’s a problem larger than the field. I mean, in an ideal world we could even render doctors redundant in most cases by some incredible Elysium(the film)-like medical bed. The problem is what do we do with our time instead? It’s a question that can inspire all kinds of hope or dread depending on your outlook.
- zanny 8y ago
  Its not a problem of time. Plenty have been born into wealth that never had to commit themselves to anything to survive. Anything they did was self motivated of their own accord - they could have lived and died a consumer of an endless stream of money. Its a problem of convincing the society that its not anyones place to dictate how someone else decides to spend that time. There will be massive resistance to any economic model other than the established scarcity based capitalist regime enshrined in most of the west for the last 150-200 years. Trying to ensure the fruits of the societies labor that led to that automation are properly apportioned to said society will be a long uphill battle against people of substantial greed that see automation not as a liberating force for humanity but as a source of permanent, infinite wealth allocation and centralization.
  - brooklyn_ashey 8y ago
    Well said. The question isn’t really “should” we decouple income from labor. We need to begin to concieve of a transitional process. Perhaps these kinds of schools are the first step, or perhaps there are even better approaches, but we need to help those who are being kicked by the current financial model. There is so much thinking and creating that is just trashed because folks can’t afford to participate.

52-6F-62 8y ago

I think this is a thought worth discussing. It’s a problem larger than the field. I mean, in an ideal world we could even render doctors redundant in most cases by some incredible Elysium(the film)-like medical bed. The problem is what do we do with our time instead? It’s a question that can inspire all kinds of hope or dread depending on your outlook.

zanny 8y ago
Its not a problem of time. Plenty have been born into wealth that never had to commit themselves to anything to survive. Anything they did was self motivated of their own accord - they could have lived and died a consumer of an endless stream of money. Its a problem of convincing the society that its not anyones place to dictate how someone else decides to spend that time. There will be massive resistance to any economic model other than the established scarcity based capitalist regime enshrined in most of the west for the last 150-200 years. Trying to ensure the fruits of the societies labor that led to that automation are properly apportioned to said society will be a long uphill battle against people of substantial greed that see automation not as a liberating force for humanity but as a source of permanent, infinite wealth allocation and centralization.
- brooklyn_ashey 8y ago
  Well said. The question isn’t really “should” we decouple income from labor. We need to begin to concieve of a transitional process. Perhaps these kinds of schools are the first step, or perhaps there are even better approaches, but we need to help those who are being kicked by the current financial model. There is so much thinking and creating that is just trashed because folks can’t afford to participate.