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Agreed. more and more jobs are being automated and going away. Both in big ways and smaller ones. Heck sometimes as a programmer I have bad feelings about ma
by spotman 11y ago
Agreed. more and more jobs are being automated and going away. Both in big ways and smaller ones. Heck sometimes as a programmer I have bad feelings about making things more efficient for humans, thereby requiring less of them. In my career there has many projects that fit that description.
This is a complex idea, not without a large amount of challenges.
However as a citizen and programmer, I would rather see more things being automated, and instead of more unemployment, people could either not work, or find work they are more passionate about.
Just imagine if everyone that decided they want to not sit around all day, actually was working on something they were passionate about.
- bandrami 11y agoThat's how I feel too. If there were a social dividend (which I think is a better term for a minimum income), then people would find a lot more useful things to do with their time than either the market or a government program could find. I just completely don't buy the "people wouldn't work" thing. Yes, you'd probably have to pay some menial work more to motivate people to do it (or, even better, spur technological development to automate that), but that's a feature, not a bug.