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Unfortunately the change is inevitable, just as with pensions, because the population is aging and there isn't enough youth left to pay for it. And due to autom
by bad_user 13y ago
Unfortunately the change is inevitable, just as with pensions, because the population is aging and there isn't enough youth left to pay for it. And due to automatization or outsourcing, cheap labor is less and less needed anyway and high unemployment rates will be pretty common.
This reality in fact highlights another reality - our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore and we need to either transcend it, maybe with technological improvements that drops the price of basic necessities, like food, energy and medical healthcare, or we're fucked.
- humanrebar 13y ago> our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore Wait, isn't the premise of your comment that healthcare is too scarce?
- bad_user 13y agoWell, yes. I also believe it shouldn't be.