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> if people can stay healthy and productive well past their "natural" prime Ah yes, I'm really looking forward to eternal life of wage slaving where my whole p
by hanniabu 7y ago
> if people can stay healthy and productive well past their "natural" prime
Ah yes, I'm really looking forward to eternal life of wage slaving where my whole purpose of living is to be productive and bring others profits.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoRobots will do most the slaving. You will be lucky to have any job to do.
- hanniabu 7y agoAnd people will still be preaching the "just learn a new skill" nonsense and that all the poor unemployed people are lazy.
- bufferoverflow 7y ago"Learn a new skill" works perfectly fine now. The problem is, most people aren't good at learning new things, especially as they age.
- chousuke 7y agoI meant productive in the positive sense that a person is able to enjoy their life doing things they find meaningful, not the "productivity" of a broken society where humans are exploited for the benefit of a lucky few. People in general do not require all that much live happy lives. I think that if there's any point to society existing at all it should be to raise the quality of life above that threshold for as many people as possible while seeking to minimize the strain on those it cannot elevate.