10 ms·
Reducing labor as a goal seems rather odd. Why do you feel people should not have the freedom to work? What would you rather people do instead?
by bhawks 6y ago
Reducing labor as a goal seems rather odd. Why do you feel people should not have the freedom to work? What would you rather people do instead?
- lupinglade 6y agoLive?
- bryan_w 6y agoBut then who would do the work?
- lupinglade 6y agoMore automation.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- Ericson2314 6y agoLet's look at this in aggregate: Fact: Productivity growth stars exceeding whole economy growth sometime in the 1970s. Rather than a shrinking workday or mass unemployment, we get mass underemployment. What this means is no one can survive without a job so inefficient or pointless work grows rapidly, fed by the margins of the labor market. This ultimately discourages further investment, technological progress, and will lead to falling median productivity and then mean productivity. This is extremely dangerous for society. We'll end up paupers in the ruins of our past greatness. Maybe we already have, if one looks at our infrastructure. Basically, you can think of the lack of a UBI as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) on the labor market.
- Ericson2314 6y agoA website like HN should be nakedly self-interestedly be for this, because a labor shortage is the best thing to "make technology great again".