This article tries to answer the wrong question. It just iterates the Industrial Age 'You got to have a proper job to be a valuable member of society.' meme. T

This article tries to answer the wrong question. It just iterates the Industrial Age 'You got to have a proper job to be a valuable member of society.' meme. That's the same fallacy most socialists succumb to. Because their ideas are so deeply rooted in the concept of jobs and employment they can't even envision a future in which most people make do without a proper job. The real question isn't: "How will we still be able to keep employees chained to their jobs in the future?" but: "How will we manage to liberate people from doing meaningless bullshit jobs?" The answer to the former question would be: "Of course: Have them buy even more useless trinkets and gadgets so they still have to work their asses off." An answer to the latter could be some sort of basic income. I'm not saying at all that luxury goods are inherently bad. However, the value of time has to be put into perspective. While time is the most valuable luxury good many people frivolously spend it on the ability to buy essentially useless consumer goods. Currently, most people simply can't say 'Look boss, I don't need so much money anyway so I'd much rather work for 20 hrs / week. OK?' so they just spend their disposable income for things they don't actually need. The income's at your disposal anyway so why not just spend it on gadgets in order to make up for the time lost while earning this income? In my opinion, this is a vicious circle humanity in the long run needs to break out of if we want to be truly free.