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Its good technology is taking away jobs, if it is not, that means we are all doing something really really wrong. Who in their right minds would like to do thi

Its good technology is taking away jobs, if it is not, that means we are all doing something really really wrong. Who in their right minds would like to do things just to do more things? People always come up with new things so they can stop doing what they are doing. Lazy programmers are the best, the ones that dont want to do things when a computer can do it for them. People should stop working. We have enough technology to feed everyone on the planet, and maintain and develop our current rate of progress, even without aiming for full employment. We have to strive for lesser work days. Why is 8 hours acceptable? We are designed to work only 2 hours per day, maximum. That is why we invent.

sedachv 15y ago
Not only do we need to reduce working hours, we need to provide a basic income guarantee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee). This is what the promise of technological progress is about, and is one of the tenets of Marxian communism. Ironically, the basic income guarantee is also something that is advocated by many liberal and libertarian economists. These two factors are IMO key to further accelerating the rate of technological innovation. They enable anyone who is interested in science and technology to freely pursue these interests, whereas today many people are driven away from science by huge disincentives (massive student loans and poor career prospects).