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The "elephant in the room" of this article was wealth redistribution. Technological advancements should make it possible for people to work 15-20 hours a week.
by klunger 12y ago
The "elephant in the room" of this article was wealth redistribution. Technological advancements should make it possible for people to work 15-20 hours a week. In theory. The problem is that those same technological advancements go hand in hand with increased concentrations of wealth. It is the regrettable observed tendency of people with considerably more wealth than the masses to be stingy with that wealth, feel they inherently deserve it and lack empathy.
So, if people in general are to benefit from technological advancements, there needs to be legislated wealth redistribution to overcome the inherent miserly-ness of the 1% whose wealth is largely a function of that technology.
- solistice 12y agoWhat about the Giving Pledge[1] or the 2,000,000 people the Antony Robbins Foundation is trying to feed this year[2]? Whilst I agree with the assessment that charitable giving among the billionaires of the world might not be what it could be, there are shining examples of charitable giving amongst them, and I think that the generalization of stinginess, entitlement and heartlessness is overly broad and extremely harsh. [1] http://givingpledge.org/index.html http://givingpledge.org/index.html [2] https://www.anthonyrobbinsfoundation.org/ https://www.anthonyrobbinsfoundation.org/