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I'm curious as to what you propose as an alternate solution

• jpttsn 5y ago
  I don’t have one.
• mindslight 5y ago
  The actual problem is not that there is less work for humans to do, but that the remaining work is divided unevenly. Currently, personal overproduction just gets eaten up by the hedonic and financial treadmills, while the underemployed see little benefit from developing skills for jobs that are already taken. Significantly dropping what is considered "full time" employment would be a good start. A target of twenty hours per week is a good immediate target, as well as getting rid of that "exempt employee" loophole. Longer term, if we wish to continue having a distributed economy, then the gains of automation need to accrue to people directly, through something resembling ownership. Basic Income should only ever been seen as a social safety net. Collecting most of the wealth by a centralized entity ("government") to distribute back out to people is fraught with political hazard, if it is even possible to sustain.