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Instead of giving people makework, we could move towards divorcing "livelihood" from "employment".
by Zarathustra30 2y ago
Instead of giving people makework, we could move towards divorcing "livelihood" from "employment".
- dools 2y ago> Instead of giving people makework Who suggested that? > we could move towards divorcing "livelihood" from "employment". Why would we do that?
- snapcaster 2y agoWhy would this be a good idea? I don't mean in the narrow sense of our current society etc. etc. but in general should't people have to contribute to society to get resources from society? this seems so anti social
- Zarathustra30 2y agoIf worker productivity keeps increasing, we may reach a point where it exceeds total labor required. If we keep livelyhood tied to employment, the only two options would be busywork or mass starvation.
- dools 2y agoAs Bill Mitchell once told me (in person) "Sure when all work is removed by automation, assuming we share the gains of productivity equally, a Job Guarantee automatically becomes a UBI".
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI don't mind. But that discussion doesn't even seem to really be fancied as of now. Rather have more of that before talking about justifying the end of an entire labor sector.