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> The point is: you don’t need everyone to work full time everyday for a society to maintain a healthy standard of living. Maintaining isn't what people are ai
by luckylion 7y ago
> The point is: you don’t need everyone to work full time everyday for a society to maintain a healthy standard of living.
Maintaining isn't what people are aiming for though, they want improvement. People are not satisfied by objectively living much better lives than some king or pope 500 years ago.
- jonathankoren 7y agoFirst, peoples’ satisfaction is primarily influenced by the visibility of the inequities immediately around them. Second, who said anything about the rate of change going to zero? Even if productivity suddenly dropped to 1948 levels, it’s not like we’d be living in 1948. It’s not a time machine.
- luckylion 7y ago> First, peoples’ satisfaction is primarily influenced by the visibility of the inequities immediately around them. I agree. What follows from that? Do we let some people live in the 21st century but hide their life style from the rest so we can keep them happy at a level that we can more easily automate? And sure, it's not going to reverse necessarily (though it will to some degree, because we can't "automate" the 2020 economy). My point is that people aren't satisfied with no progress. Wanting to change things for the better seems to be a very natural part of humanity, making plans that don't account for that drive doesn't seem wise.