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You've just treated the entire world economy as if every individual is fungible, all tasks are identical, and transaction costs are completely negligible. The
by john_b 12y ago
You've just treated the entire world economy as if every individual is fungible, all tasks are identical, and transaction costs are completely negligible.
The only thing that's failed here is your perspective. The world is a very complex place and the last thing it needs more of are people pondering half-thought "solutions" to problems they haven't given an iota of thought to.
- kefka 12y agoYoure right. The world economy is a humongous place. However, what happens when there is 10% unemployment? What about 20 percent unemployment? Or what happens when the screws capitalism are turned and you see 90 percent unemployment? That is is the intended result of capitalism, is it not? To me that was a fail system. And communism and socialism have both proven to be failures. now, what do we do about this? Honestly, I have no clue.
- infectoid 12y agoEmployment is a fairly broad solution. More fundamentally, if you don't give people something to do (i.e. purpose) they will probably just riot and start a revolution of some sort. Where is the market for a driverless taxi if nobody can afford to catch one? If you're an optimist, there will always be meaningful work to be done (for some kind of credit), supported by a government that knows to placate a society, they need to feel useful. A pessimist on the other hand might subscribe to the cyclical nature of the rise and fall of civilisations. They catalyst this time being technological development moving faster than our ability to mentally and socially digest it. We have only got about a billions years left. Let's make them count.