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The problem lies deeper. There's only so much work that the humanity legitimately needs done, but the economy is built upon the assumption that everyone can get
by grishka 4y ago
The problem lies deeper. There's only so much work that the humanity legitimately needs done, but the economy is built upon the assumption that everyone can get a job. So we end up creating jobs the society at large doesn't actually benefit from to make sure every person has to do some work to earn money to live. This includes ballooning IT companies about which you can't help but keep asking "where does enough work even come from to occupy all these people, in a product that's essentially finished".
I don't know how to even approach solving this.
- wildrhythms 4y agoFurther reading - The Rise of Bullshit Jobs https://jacobin.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeber-work-service https://jacobin.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeber-work...
- hammyhavoc 4y agoThe solution is both simultaneously simple, yet incredibly nuanced and socially complex: UBI.
- grishka 4y agoAnd because universal basic income is so nuanced and socially complex, I feel like this problem is here to stay until we reach post-scarcity, if we ever do.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoExactly. That's without even considering a botched rollout of UBI causing inflation and inequality like we've never known before.