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The question is: who needs the jobless people? http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.pdf http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soai
by pacala 12y ago
The question is: who needs the jobless people?
http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.pdf http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.p...
Table 1
U.S. Equine Population During
Mechanization of Agriculture and Transportation
Year Number of Horses and Mules
1900 21,531,635
1905 22,077,000
1910 24,042,882
1915 26,493,000
1920 25,199,552
1925 22,081,520
1930 18,885,856
1935 16,676,000
1940 13,931,531
1945 11,629,000
1950 7,604,000
1955 4,309,000
1960 3,089,000
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> The question is: who needs the jobless people? If we ever end up really asking ourselves this question it means that capitalism has been running for too long; that it grew into an entity that serves its own goals rather than ours. By that time it might be too hard to slay that particular beast though.
- shenanigoat 12y agoThanks. You've posted my favourite comment on the subject so far.
- damon_c 12y agoWait... so are you proposing a metaphor where we are the horses and mules?
- Filligree 12y agoHe didn't say so explicitly, but the horse-count is typically used in relation to this point: What happens when the value of your work falls below the cost of subsistence? In the case of the horses, once feeding them was no longer worthwhile, the answer was simple: They didn't. Hopefully we won't do anything similar for humans. It would be the most horrendous eugenics program of all time.
- pjc50 12y agoThis is the pretty much the stated goal of "austerity" benefits cuts. It's already starting to have the effect in the UK of disabled people starving or freezing to death due to not being able to afford to carry on living. So far in small numbers ...